Presupposition and Context Sensitivity

Mind and Language 29 (5):613-627 (2014)
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Abstract

We argue there is a clash between the standard treatments of context sensitivity and presupposition triggering. We use this criticism to motivate a defense of an often-discarded view about how to represent context sensitivity, according to which there are more lexically implicit items in logical form than has been appreciated

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Adam Sennet
University of California, Davis
Ernie LePore
Rutgers - New Brunswick

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