2009/07/01 by Saul A. Kripke
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · #Linguistics and Discourse Analysis #Philosophy and Theoretical Science #Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
paper · doi:10.1162/ling.2009.40.3.367
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Writers on presupposition, and on the “projection problem” of determining the presuppositions of compound sentences from their component clauses, traditionally assign presuppositions to each clause in isolation. I argue that many presuppositional elements are anaphoric to previous discourse or contextual elements. In compound sentences, these can be other clauses of the sentence. We thus need a theory of presuppositional anaphora, analogous to the corresponding pronominal theory.