Presuppositions

Abstract

Draft version, Comments welcome!"The collapsing of Strawson's sleeping children into Stalnaker and Saddock's lunch obviating sister, who herself metamorphoses into Grice's aunt's philharmonic cousin who in turn mutates into Burton-Roberts' lunch-going sister should remind us that in the evolution of presupposition theory, all progress is relative."-Horn 1990:487 * To appear in Daniel Altshuler (ed.), Linguistics Meets Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. Thanks to Daniel Altshuler for very helpful comments.1 I am assuming solitary has a double meaning in this context: The sole (only) neighbour and also that this neighbour is solitary.

The Semantics and Pragmatics of Argumentation

“…Presumably, whatever explains the non-projective reading in (18) can explain the non-projective reading in (17-a) (cf. Abrusán (2016), Abrusán (2022)). The standard explanations for non-projective readings under negation are available here: maybe we are dealing with two different kinds of negation (metalinguistic negation versus negation simpliciter (cf.…”

The perspective‐sensitivity of presuppositions

“…Facts of presuppositions are sensitive to various linguistic and discourse factors (e.g., focus, topic, the probability of presupposed content, etc.) that greatly influence what is (perceived as) the presupposition of a sentence (see Abrusán, 2022, for an overview). What this paper shows is that perspective shift is a factor that influences presupposition interpretation in subtle ways, and we need to pay attention to it.…”