lecture10presuppositions语言学预设.pptVIP

The first property will prove to be the undoing of any possible semantic theory of presupposition, while the second property may serve to distinguish presuppositions from conversational implicatures. Defeasibility turns out to be one of the crucial properties of presuppositional behaviour, and one of the touchstones against which all theories of presupposition have to be assessed. In addition there is another problematic property of presuppositions, known as the projection problem, namely the behaviour of presuppositions in complex sentences. (49) some further change of state verbs: