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Presupposition Projection from the Scope of Quantifiers: a Novel Approach

EasyChair Preprint no. 9407

7 pagesDate: December 3, 2022

Abstract

We present a modification of the Transparency Theory (Schlenker 2007, 2008), in the case of presupposition projection from the scope quantifiers, which allows the force of the quantifier to affect the force of the projected presupposition. The modification is based on letting the Transparency constraint operate on witness sets (Barwise & Cooper 1981), and produces predictions that match currently known empirical results (Chemla 2009, Tiemann 2014), while also making novel predictions that will hopefully serve as input to future psycholinguistic experimentation.

Keyphrases: monotonicity, presupposition projection, quantifiers

BibTeX entry
BibTeX does not have the right entry for preprints. This is a hack for producing the correct reference:
@Booklet{EasyChair:9407,
  author = {Alexandros Kalomoiros},
  title = {Presupposition Projection from the Scope of Quantifiers: a Novel Approach},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint no. 9407},

  year = {EasyChair, 2022}}
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