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soft and hard presupposition triggers: a standalone construct

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Semantics

distinction between presupposition triggers whose inference is easily suspended in context and those whose inference resists suspension.

In semantics, soft and hard presupposition triggers refers to distinction between presupposition triggers whose inference is easily suspended in context and those whose inference resists suspension. This meaning comes from Abusch (2009) in Journal of Semantics.[1]

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context4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs inference3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs presupposition2 fields · 2 citationsinvariant · one construct, two traditions

References

Abusch, D. (2009). Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives. Journal of Semantics, 27(1), 37-80. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffp009

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