What Is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?*

Fintel, Kai von

doi:10.1111/j.1520-8583.2008.00144.x

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“…For the non-conditional inference p, there are various proposals in the literature on how to generate it. Some argue that the non-conditional inference is also a presupposition (Schlenker 2011b,a;Singh , 2008, while others argue that it is an inference generated based upon the conditional presupposition φ → p (Pérez-Carballo 2009;von Fintel 2008;van Rooij 2007). The details of these proposals are not essential in the present context, but it should be noted that it is commonly assumed that whether the inference that p obtains or not is determined by pragmatic factors.…”

Section: Conditional Presupposition Theorymentioning

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An Experimental Investigation of Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences

Romoli¹,

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2011

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Conditional sentences with a presupposition trigger in the consequentif φ , then ψ p -show peculiar projection properties. That is, the entire sentence suggests that p in some cases and that φ → p in other cases. We report on the results of two sentence-picture matching experiments that indicate that the perceived dependence of the presupposition p on the antecedent φ affects which inference is made. The results are also used to compare two major theories of presupposition projection, and we argue that the theory that postulates φ → p as the presupposition of all conditional sentences explains the results more straightforwardly than its competitor.

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Section: Conditional Presupposition Theorymentioning

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“…The projection properties of conditional sentences have been at the center of the debate in the literature (Geurts 1999;Beaver 2001;von Fintel 2008;Pérez-Carballo 2009;Singh 2008;Schlenker 2010). The problem posed by conditional sentences is now widely known as the proviso problem (Geurts 1999).…”

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An Experimental Investigation of Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences

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Snedeker³

2011

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“…Thus, here c is an information state. We say that something is established in c if it is true at every world in c. 13 As Karttunen himself remarked, this principle is too strong: speakers can felicitously utter sentences that have presuppositions which are not supported by the context at the time of utterance, provided these presuppositions can be accommodated easily and uncontroversially by the interlocutors upon hearing the sentence (see Karttunen 1974;von Fintel 2008). Strictly, Zaefferer's rule would also have to be modified to take accommodation into account: a speaker may felicitously use an unconditional whose antecedent alternatives do not cover the context set, if the fact that one of these alternatives is true can easily be accommodated.…”

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Lifting conditionals to inquisitive semantics

Ciardelli

2016

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This paper describes how any theory which assigns propositions to conditional sentences can be lifted to the setting of inquisitive semantics, where antecedents and consequents may be associated with multiple propositions. We show that the lifted account improves on the original account in two ways: first, it leads to a better analysis of disjunctive antecedents, which are treated as introducing multiple assumptions; second, it extends the original account to cover two further classes of conditional constructions, namely, unconditionals and conditional questions.

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“…10 See Karttunen 1974, Heim 1992. 11 Stories of this kind have been sketched, e.g., in Karttunen & Peters 1979, Soames 1982, Heim 1990, Beaver 1992, Heim 2006, van Rooij 2007, Singh 2007, von Fintel 2008 Thus, for instance, a conditional like (10) is a strange conditional, and it is hard to see why a speaker would take it for granted. It is plausible on general grounds that if a speaker is assuming that conditional, it is because she is also assuming something stronger which entails it-in this case, that John has a sister.…”

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Dissatisfaction Theory

Mandelkern

2016

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I propose a new theory of semantic presupposition, which I call dissatisfaction theory. I first review a cluster of problems-known collectively as the proviso problem-for most extant theories of presupposition, arguing that the main pragmatic response to these problems faces a serious challenge. I avoid these problems by adopting two changes in perspective on presupposition. First, I propose a theory of projection according to which presuppositions project unless they are locally entailed. Second, I reject the standard assumption that presuppositions must be entailed by the input context; instead, I propose that presuppositions are contents which are marked as backgrounded. I show that these commitments allow us to avoid the proviso problem altogether, and to make otherwise plausible predictions about presupposition projection out of connectives and attitude predicates. I close by sketching a two-dimensional implementation of my theory which makes further welcome predictions about attitude predicates and quantifiers.

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What Is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?*

Cited by 243 publications

References 28 publications

An Experimental Investigation of Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences

An Experimental Investigation of Presupposition Projection in Conditional Sentences

Lifting conditionals to inquisitive semantics

Dissatisfaction Theory

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