Webit, “the problem of predicting the presuppositions of complex sentences in a compositional fashion from the presuppositions of their parts”. As illustrated above, presuppositions in complex sentences (e.g., with a negation) do not behave in a straightforward manner and the projection problem seeks to explain this behaviour. WebWriters on presupposition, and on the projection problem of determining the presuppositions of compound sentences from their component clauses, traditionally assign presuppositions to each clause in isolation. I argue that many presuppositional elements are anaphoric to previous discourse or contextual elements. In compound sentences, …

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Web20 de jan. de 2010 · In the present chapter I will by no means deal with all these questions, but I will recast some of them and suggest somewhat straight-forward answers within a “mental space” framework. As in many linguistically oriented studies, the focus will be on the so-called projection problem, but I will suggest that the very formulation of this ... WebScott Soames A Projection Problem for Speaker Presuppositions* 1. Introduction Ten years ago, in "The Projection Problem for Presuppositions" ,' Terence Langendoen … black cherry laffy taffy

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Web26 de fev. de 2011 · In the literature, further examples abound where presuppositions embodied in various types of complex sentences seem weirdly, or even inconsistently, related to the presuppositions of constituent clauses. New approaches have been offered and debated, particularly in the last three years. Heim, I.: 1990, Presupposition Projection. Webpresuppositions. What is the “projection problem”? It is “the problem of predicting the presuppositions of complex sentences in a compositional fashion from the … http://lingphil.mit.edu/papers/fox/Quantifier-Projection.pdf black cherry laptop table