Presupposition Projection: the New Debate

Schlenker, Philippe

doi:10.3765/salt.v18i0.2503

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“…Such accounts can then be defined so as to model the projection patterns we saw above (Beaver 1997;Beaver 2001: §2.2). Trivalent accounts include some of the earliest in formal semantics (Keenan, 1972;Karttunen, 1973) and have recently enjoyed a revival (George, 2008;Schlenker, 2008b).…”

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Presupposition and Implicature

Potts¹

2015

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

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Presupposition and Implicature

Potts¹

2015

The Handbook of Contemporary Semantic Theory

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“…Universal-only theories The first group of theories predicts only universal presupposition projection for sentences like (5) (Heim 1983, Schlenker 2008George 2008;Fox 2012;Chemla & Schlenker 2012;Mayr & Sauerland 2016). 2 These theories account for the UNIVERSAL reading of (5) directly via presupposition 2 To be precise, trivalent theories such as George 2008;Fox 2008 make more nuanced predictions than 'pure' Universal-Only theories, by varying the force of projection with the quantifier.…”

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Presupposition projection from the scope of None: Universal, existential, or both?

Romoli¹

2016

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The nature of presupposition projection from the scope of quantificational expressions, particularly negative ones, continues to be both theoretically and empirically controversial. We experimentally investigate the interpretation of sentences like None of the bears won the race, which could in principle be associated with three projection options, giving rise to: an existential reading, on which at least one of the bears participated and none won; a universal reading, on which all of the bears participated and none won; and a presuppositionless reading on which none of the bears both participated and won. We used a covered box task to investigate English-speaking adults' and children's interpretations of such sentences. The results from the adult participants provide empirical evidence for all three readings; the results from the child participants, however, reveal no evidence for the existential reading. We discuss our results in light of competing theoretical accounts, focusing on options for reconciling the theories with the experimental data from both adults and children.

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“…The case of negated adverbial modifiers: A baselineSentences containing negated adverbial modifiers, such as (15a), tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding unmodified positive sentence is true; for instance, (15a) suggests quite robustly that my dogs did jump(Simons 2001;Katzir 2007;Schlenker 2008).5 Note that we will assume that children in the age range tested in our experiment (4-6 years) have acquired the basic forms and meanings of the present and past tense in English (this will also be supported by the use of appropriate experimental controls). For documentation and discussion of children's development of tense in production and comprehension, see among others,Brown (1973);Antinucci & Miller (1976);Kuczaj (1977);Weist (1986);Weist et al (1991);Shirai & Andersen (1995);Marchman et al (1997);Wagner (1998;; Valian (2006);Shirai & Miyata (2006);Wagner (2010).…”

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Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language

Cremers

Kane

Tieu

et al. 2018

Glossa: A Journal of General Linguistics

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Sentences involving past tense verbs, such as "My dogs were on the carpet", tend to give rise to the inference that the corresponding present tense version, "My dogs are on the carpet", is false. This inference is often referred to as a cessation or temporal inference, and is generally analyzed as a type of implicature. There are two main proposals for capturing this asymmetry: one assumes a difference in informativity between the past and present counterparts (Altshuler & Schwarzschild 2013), while the other proposes a structural difference between the two (Thomas 2012). The two approaches are similar in terms of empirical coverage, but differ in their predictions for language acquisition. Using a novel animated picture selection paradigm, we investigated these predictions. Specifically, we compared the performance of a group of 4-6-year-old children and a group of adults on temporal inferences, scalar implicatures arising from "some", and inferences of adverbial modifiers under negation. The results revealed that overall, children computed all three inferences at a lower rate than adult controls; however they were more adult-like on temporal inferences and inferences of adverbial modifiers than on scalar implicatures. We discuss the implications of the findings, both for a developmental alternatives-based hypothesis (e.g., Barner et al. 2011; Singh et al. 2016; Tieu et al. 2016; 2018), as well as theories of temporal inferences, arguing that the finding that children were more (and equally) adult-like on temporal inferences and adverbial modifiers supports a structural theory of temporal inferences along the lines of Thomas (2012).

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Presupposition Projection: the New Debate

Cited by 18 publications

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Presupposition and Implicature

Presupposition and Implicature

Presupposition projection from the scope of None: Universal, existential, or both?

Testing theories of temporal inferences: Evidence from child language

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