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Pragmatics and presupposition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2026

Jerrold J. Katz and
D. Terence Langendoen
Jerrold J. Katz
Affiliation:
Graduate Center, City University of New York
D. Terence Langendoen
Affiliation:
Graduate Center, City University of New York
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Abstract

This paper examines the claim that the only adequate account of presupposition in natural language must be a contextual one, and that a purely semantic account of this notion is inadequate. We contend that exactly the opposite is the case: there is an adequate semantic account of presupposition in natural language, so that contextual accounts of this notion are unnecessary.

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Language , Volume 52 , Issue 1 , March 1976, pp. 1 - 17
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Copyright © 1976 by Linguistic Society of America

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