Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form

account of presupposition affirmative sentences allow ambiguous analysis Angela Davis argues argument assume assumption c-sentence cancelled Chapter claim clausal clause complement compound sentences conjunction connectives Consider context conventional conversational implicature counterexamples defined definition deletion discussion entails exclusive disjunction explanation expression fact factive false filters following examples formal function Gazdar given grammar Gricean Hausser heavy parentheses hypothesis illocutionary force inconsistent intuitions involved Karttunen and Peters Katz and Langendoen killing his father king of Buganda king of France Lakoff Lauri Karttunen lexical linguistic Mary material implication meaning modus tollens morphemes natural language natural language negation negation operator negative sentences Note notion Oedipus performative sentences performative verb PLC-CI theory possible PRAG pragmatic predicts presuppose presupposition problem proposed Pullum reference regrets killing relation relevant respect Sadock semantic representation speaker knows speech act Stalnaker Stalnaker's syntactic syntax theory of presupposition tion tive transformational grammar true truth conditions truth-functional underlying utterance