TY - BOOK AU - Dinsmore,John TI - The inheritance of presupposition T2 - Pragmatics & beyond, SN - 9789027280848 AV - BC199.P73 D56 1981eb U1 - 160 19 PY - 1981/// CY - Amsterdam PB - J. Benjamins KW - Presupposition (Logic) KW - Présupposition (Logique) KW - PHILOSOPHY KW - Logic KW - bisacsh KW - fast KW - Vooronderstellingen KW - gtt KW - Präsupposition KW - gnd KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Electronic reproduction; [S.l.]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010 N2 - This work presents a procedural account of the so-called projection problem for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in evry case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the projection problem upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate accunt that any previously proposed UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=409227 ER -