Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 234 mm x 156 mm, Gewicht: 531 g
Reihe: Current Research in the Semantics / Pragmatics Interface
ISBN: 978-0-08-043592-3
Verlag: Brill
In this volume, Geurts takes discourse representation theory (DRT), and turns it into a unified account of anaphora and presupposition, which he applies not only to the standard problem cases but also to the interpretation of modal expressions, attitude reports, and proper names. The resulting theory, for all its simplicity, is without doubt the most comprehensive of its kind to date.
The central idea underlying Geurts' 'binding theory' of presupposition is that anaphora is just a special case of presupposition projection. But this is only one of the ways in which the concept of presupposition is taken beyond its traditional limits. Geurts shows, furthermore, that presupposition projection is crucially involved in several phenomena that are not usually viewed in presuppositional terms, such as modal subordination, de re readings of attitude reports, and rigid designation.
While making his case for DRT and the binding theory, Geurts also presents an incisive analysis of what is probably still the most influential account of presupposition, viz. the satisfaction theory, demonstrating that there are fundamental problems not only with this theory but with the very framework in which it is couched.
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Preface
Presupposition
Presupposition projection
Taking something for granted
Presupposition vs. implicatures
Projection vs. scope
Where do they come from? A note on presupposition failure
The Binding Theory
Discourse representation theory
From anaphora to presupposition
Constraints on interpretation
Applications and refinements
Further remarks on binding and accommodation
The Satisfaction Theory
The theory
The proviso problem
The argument from truth-functionality
The argument from improbability
Further problems
Diagnosis
Dynamic Semantics
The theory, and what is wrong with it
Dynamic semantics vs. DRT
Forward reference
Other connectives, same story
Conclusion
Attitude Reports
Presuppositional expressions in attitude contexts
No satisfaction
Belief in DRT
Counterparts
Presuppositions in and of belief reports
Importation
'Want'
Modals
Modal subordination
Modals presuppose their domains
Constraints on modal subordination
Conditionals
Summing up
Names
Names and other definite descriptions
Names and reference
Names as presupposition inducers
The intuition of rigidity
Concluding remarks
References
