Explaining presupposition projection with dynamic semantics

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ID19544102
AuthorsDaniel Rothschild (0000-0003-4868-6884, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume4
Publication date2011-07-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSemantics and Pragmatics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1937-8912 • E-ISSN: 1937-8912
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/sp.4.3
OpenAlexW2055189379
LanguageEN
Citations received37
References cited18

Heim's (1982, 1983b) dynamic semantics provides an attractive system for capturing the basic facts about presupposition projection. A long-standing criticism of this semantics is that it requires for each connective lexical stipulations that are not determined by its truth-conditional meaning. I give a precise formulation of this criticism in terms of what I call a "rewrite semantics". Then, I use this idea of a rewrite semantics to formulate a new version of dynamic semantics. This version does not require stipulations particular to individual connectives, but rather allows a derivation of the presupposition projection properties for each connective from its truth-conditional meaning. doi:10.3765/sp.4.3 BibTeX info

Algorithm · Epistemology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Presupposition · Programming language · Syntax · Computer Science · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Semantic Web and Ontologies · Artificial Intelligence

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