Pragmatics: Implicature, Presupposition and Logical Form

account of presupposition affirmative sentences allow ambiguous analysis Angela Davis argument assume assumption beating his wife Boris cancelled Chapter claim clausal clause complement compound sentences conjunction connectives Consider context conversational implicature counterexamples counterfactuals defined discussion entails exclusive disjunction explanation expression fact factive factive verbs false filters following examples formal function given grammar Gricean Hausser heavy parentheses hypothesis illocutionary force inconsistent interpretation intuitions involved Jack has children John regrets Karttunen and Peters Katz and Langendoen killing his father king of Buganda king of France Lakoff lexical linguistic Mary material implication modus tollens morphemes natural language negation negation operator negative sentences Note notion occur Oedipus PLC-CI theory possible PRAG pragmatic predicts presup presuppose presupposition projection rule proposed propositional attitude Pullum quantitative scale reference regrets killing relation relevant respect Sadock semantic representation speaker knows Stalnaker Stalnaker's structure syntactic syntax theory of presupposition tion transformational grammar true truth conditions truth-functional