Our sincerest thanks belong to our friends and colleagues from the Faculty of Mathematics
and Physics, Charles University, whose positive attitude and kind support allowed this book …

In ordinary talk, we presuppose a great deal. That is, we take things for granted, assuming
that the other conversational participants share our knowledge of them. This book is about …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the linguistic and philosophical theories that
vary in the extent to which they involve definitions of presupposition, which are close to this …

Let me begin by setting out my argument as baldly as possible and then go on to examine its
basis and its consequences. It is this. There are two irreducible modes of cognitive …

Grice's program in “Logic and Conversation” is conservative with re-spect to semantic
representation and with respect to the postulation of dif-ferent senses for expressions. For …

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It is a common truth that the simplest and most obvious questions are often particularly
difficult to answer. For instance, when meeting new people I get confronted with the very …

This book is a revised version of my Ph. D. thesis: Aspects of the Grammaticalisation of
Hypothetical Modality, which I completed at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, in …

Consider the possibilities for reference using vague definite descriptions. There are two pigs
in a pen: the first a runt, the second quite round but not really fat. Now the farmer says," The …

This paper is a cross-linguistic study of counterfactuality in simple clauses, as in the English
construction The police should have intervened. On the basis of a representative sample of …