Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics
All humans can interpret sentences of their native language quickly and without effort. Working from the perspective of generative grammar, the contributors to this volume investigate three mental mechanisms, widely assumed to underlie this ability: compo
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Presupposition and Implicature in Compositional Semantics Edited by
Uli Sauerland and
Penka Stateva
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Contents
Notes on Contributors
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1 Introduction
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Uli Sauerland and Penka Stateva
2 Quantifier Dependent Readings of Anaphoric Presuppositio
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