A Modal Analysis of Presupposition and Modal Subordination  

Oleh:

Rooij, Robert Van

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Semantics (Sebagian Full Text) vol. 22 no. 3 (Aug. 2005), page 281–305.
Topik: Presupposition; Modal Subordination
Fulltext: vol 22, no 3, p 281-305.pdf (186.49KB)

Isi artikel

In this paper I will give a modal two-dimensional analysis of presupposition and modal subordination. I will think of presupposition as a non-veridical propositional attitude. This allows me to evaluate what is presupposed and what is asserted at different dimensions without getting into the binding problem. What is presupposed will be represented by an accessibility relation between possible worlds. The major part of the paper consists of a proposal to account for the dependence of the interpretation of modal expressions, i.e. modal subordination, in terms of an accessibility relation as well. Moreover, I show how such an analysis can be extended from the propositional to the predicate logical level.

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