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Antipresuppositions revisited| old_uid | 7725 |
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| title | Antipresuppositions revisited |
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| start_date | 2009/11/30 |
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| schedule | 10h-12h |
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| online | no |
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| summary | Some syntactic structures come with an interesting condition on their use: they require that a certain proposition p _not_ be taken for granted. In other words, they “antipresuppose” p. This talk updates a paper from 2006 concerned with the question of how “antipresuppositions” are derived. The earlier paper explored an approach due to Sauerland and Schlenker, on which antipresuppositions do not arise compositionally but rather result from a blocking effect: on this approach, a maxim, “Maximize Presupposition," dictates that the syntactic structures in question are rendered unuseable when alternative structures with stronger presuppositions would be felicitous. In the past few years, a variety of work has appeared on this
topic, which essentially accepts that antipresuppositions result from a blocking effect but departs from the idea that a specific “Maximize Presupposition” maxim is needed to account for the blocking. This talk follows the same line of thought. It reviews the arguments that antipresuppositions result from a blocking effect, and, like much recent work, takes the position that the blocking is due to a more general principle governing the use of structures with scalar items. It suggests, though, that
the principle is one that has not been discussed in the literature. |
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| oncancel | séance annulée |
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| responsibles | Aroui |
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