"The conference on presupposition which we convened in Stuttgart in October 2000 ... gave rise to the papers in this collection"--Page xi-xii.
Contents
Presupposition : an (un)common attitude? / Robert Van Rooij -- Pragmatic strategies / Rob van der Sandt -- Have you noticed that your belly button lint color is related to the color of your clothing? / David Beaver -- Accomodation and reaccomodation in dialogue / Robin Cooper and Staffan Larsson -- Specific indefinites, presupposition and scope / Bart Geurts -- Deixis, binding and presupposition / Nicholas Asher -- Become and its presuppositions / Manfred Bierwisch -- Only if an indefinite is topical, the pronoun picks it up / Paul Dekker -- Good and bad transitive arguments / Michael Morreau -- Private adjectives : subsective plus coercion / Barbara H. Partee.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
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