Presupposition Computation and Presupposition Justification: One Aspect of the Interpretation of Multi-Sentence Discourse
Hans Kamp · 2001
this paper goes back several years. I have used the example with which the paper is exclusively concerned repeatedly in oral presentations, going back as far as 1996, as a simple illustration of the inferential effects of presupposition justification, and of the interaction between different presuppositions triggered within one and the same sentence. I know that over the years I have benefitted from feedback of more people than I now recall. On pain of offending some who ought to be mentioned here, I would like to thank some of them by name: Peter Krause, Uwe Reyle, Antje Rossdeutscher and Michael Schiehlen have helped me not just to understand better the details of the example in question, but also to arrive at the general perspective of the role of presupposition in discourse of which the treatment proposed in this paper is a single illustrative instance. I am grateful also for the recommendations of an anonymous referee, which I have found very helpful and with which I have tried to comply to the best of my ability. Thanks, finally, to Peter and Antje for seizing this opportunity to wean me (almost) of Word 5.1 and throw me into the deep end of LaTeX