Re: RT list: the projection problem for presuppositions

Some relevance theory (and near-RT) references on presupposition to add to the ones I gave in my previous email (which are also below):

Carston, R. (1998). Negation, ‘presupposition’ and the semantics/pragmatics distinction. Journal of Linguistics, 34(2), 309–350.
Carston, R. (1999). Negation, ‘presupposition’ and metarepresentation: a response to Noel Burton-Roberts. Journal of Linguistics, 35(2), 365-389.
Carston, R. (2002). Thoughts and Utterances: The Pragmatics of Explicit Communication. Oxford: Blackwell. (pp 52-3 and Ch 4.)
Simons, M. (2005). Presupposition and relevance. In Z. G. Szabó (Ed.), Semantics vs. pragmatics. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
Simons, M. (2007). Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition. Lingua, 117(6), 1034–1056.
Sperber, D. & Wilson, D. (1986). Relevance: Communication and Cognition (2nd ed.). Oxford: Blackwell. (pp. 213-5)
Wilson, D. and Sperber, D. (1979). Ordered entailments: An alternative to presuppositional theories. In Oh, C.-K. and D. A. Dinneen (eds.) 1979: Syntax and Semantics Vol. 11: Presupposition, NY: Academic Press.

Best,
Nick

Nicholas Allott

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> Wilson, D. (1975). Presuppositions and Non-Truth-Conditional Semantics. New York: Academic Press.
> Wilson, D. (1975). Presupposition, assertion, and lexical items. Linguistic Inquiry, 95-114.
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> Kempson, R. M. (1975). Presupposition and the Delimitation of Semantics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Received on Mon Feb 28 15:22:31 2011