Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics

By: Uli Sauerland (Editor), Penka Stateva (Editor)

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Hardcover | 15 June 2007 | Edition Number 1

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All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compositional semantics, implicature computation and presupposition computation. This volume brings together experts from semantics and pragmatics to bring forward the study of interconnections between these three mechanisms. The contributions develop new insights into important empirical phenomena; for example, approximation, free choice, accommodation, and exhaustivity effects.

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Notes on Contributors	p. viii
Introduction	p. 1
Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositions	p. 12
Introduction	p. 12
The presupposition of again	p. 14
Quantifier dependent again	p. 22
Conclusions and consequences	p. 31
Licensing or	p. 34
Introduction	p. 34
Boolean and mis-behaved 'or'	p. 38
Explicit existential quantification and 'or'	p. 46
Modal existentials	p. 53
Interactions between different licensers	p. 62
Summary	p. 67
Free Choice and the Theory of Scalar Implicatures	p. 71
Some background on scalar implicatures	p. 72
The problem of free choice permission	p. 80
Other free choice inferences	p. 85
Chierchia's puzzle	p. 89
Sauerland's proposal	p. 90
An alternative perspective	p. 95
Recursive exhaustification and FC	p. 102
Other existential quantifiers	p. 105
Singular indefinites	p. 106
Other FC effects	p. 108
Remaining issues	p. 109
Conclusion	p. 111
Partial Variables and Specificity	p. 121
Introduction	p. 121
Specificity and scope	p. 122
Solution strategies	p. 125
Partial variables	p. 136
Partial variables and presuppositions	p. 150
Conclusion	p. 154
Negated Antonyms: Creating and Filling the Gap	p. 163
Double negatives	p. 163
Attempts to explain double negatives	p. 165
Pragmatic strengthening within an epistemic theory of vagueness	p. 168
Conclusion	p. 175
A Pragmatic Constraint on Adverbial Quantification	p. 178
A possible line of argumentation, and reasons to reject it	p. 178
A constraint on the use of sentences with adverbial quantifiers	p. 183
Some consequences of this constraint	p. 191
Consequences for 'semantic partition'	p. 201
Concluding remarks	p. 206
Transparency: An Incremental Theory of Presupposition Projection	p. 214
The dynamic turn and the Transparency theory	p. 215
The projection problem: basic results of the Transparency theory	p. 223
The triggering problem: against a lexical treatment	p. 232
Problems and prospects	p. 236
Aspects of the Pragmatics of Plural Morphology: On Higher-Order Implicatures	p. 243
A puzzle about plural indefinites	p. 243
Sketch of the analysis	p. 245
The proposal	p. 251
More complex cases	p. 257
An enigma that confirms the hypothesis: the modal presupposition induced by plural indefinites	p. 264
Sauerland's alternative	p. 267
Conclusion	p. 271
Index	p. 282
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