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 …

The central idea behind this paper is that presuppositions of soft triggers arise from the way
our attention structures the informational content of a sentence. Some aspects of the …

Recent years have seen a surge of experimental approaches to the study of natural
language meaning, both to obtain solid data on subtle phenomena that are hard to assess …

Linguistic inferences have traditionally been studied and categorized in several categories,
such as entailments, implicatures or presuppositions. This typology is mostly based on …

Much of pragmatics is founded on the assumption that interlocutors are disposed to be
cooperative. However, communication can still proceed in cases where this assumption is …

Abstract Appositive constructions (My friend Sophie,(who is) a classical violinist, performed a
piece by Mozart) have stood at the center of debates concerning the range of possible …

Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups,'soft'and 'hard,'based on whether the
presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible and whether they project uniformly in …

This paper presents three self-paced reading studies on theáprocessing of presuppositions.
In these studies, we investigated the predictionsáa classical theory of presuppositions would …

As semanticists, we are interested in how meaning works in natural language. However,
when we have an utterance, different parts of its meaning will behave differently with respect …

We compare two aspects of meaning, namely the presupposition of stop in the scope of
negation (John didn't stop going to the movies.↪ John used to go to the movies.) and the …