Presupposition triggering from alternatives

dc.contributor.author	Abusch, Dorit
dc.date.accessioned	2009-06-28T10:24:20Z
dc.date.available	2009-06-28T10:24:20Z
dc.date.issued	2009-06-28T10:24:20Z
dc.description	Final prepublication version of a paper to be published in Journal of Semantics.	en_US
dc.description.abstract	This paper considers a set of presupposition triggers including focus, questions, 'contrastive' statives, and an 'affirmation/negation' construction involving and not, where presuppositions are cancelable. It is proposed that these constructions, rather than having strict semantic presuppositions, have representations involving alternative sets in the sense of alternative semantics of questions and focus, and that a default process generates a presupposition from the alternative set. Presupposition projection facts are dealt with by stating a default constraint referring to dynamic denotations. The analysis can be extended to other constructions and lexical items with defeasible presupposition triggering behavior, such as inchoatives, by hypothesizing a representation involving alternatives.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1813/13020
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	presupposition	en_US
dc.subject	alternative semantics	en_US
dc.subject	focus	en_US
dc.subject	question	en_US
dc.subject	inchoative	en_US
dc.subject	presupposition triggering	en_US
dc.title	Presupposition triggering from alternatives	en_US
dc.type	article	en_US

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