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The Inheritance of Presupposition.

This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a comple...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dinsmore, John, 1949-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1981.
Colección:Pragmatics & beyond ; 2:1.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in every case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the 'projection.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (103 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027280848
9027280843
1283359731
9781283359733
9786613359735
6613359734
ISSN:0166-6258 ;