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Presupposition Projection and the Semantics of Attitude Verbs

Author(s) -

Irene Heim

Publication year - 1992

Publication title -

journal of semantics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.661

H-Index - 39

eISSN - 1477-4593

pISSN - 0167-5133

DOI - 10.1093/jos/9.3.183

Subject(s) - presupposition , counterfactual thinking , sentence , semantics (computer science) , context (archaeology) , focus (optics) , linguistics , computer science , projection (relational algebra) , negation , generalization , complement (music) , modality (human–computer interaction) , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , psychology , epistemology , philosophy , social psychology , algorithm , programming language , chemistry , optics , biology , paleontology , biochemistry , physics , complementation , gene , phenotype

Karttunen observed that, if the complement of an attitude sentence presupposes p, then that sentence as a whole presupposes that the attitude-holder believes p. I attempt to derive some representative instances of this generalization from suitable assumptions about the lexical semantics of attitude predicates. The enterprise is carried out in a framework of context change semantics, which incorporates Stalnaker's suggestion that presupposition projection results from the stepwise fashion in which information is updated in response to complex utterances. The empirical focus is on predicates of desire and on the contribution of counterfactual mood.

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