A partial account of presupposition projection

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 147-182

  Beaver, David ^a   Krahmer, Emiel ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Accommodation; Flexibility; Montague Grammar; Partial logic; Presupposition projection; Type theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248726282     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008371413822     Document Type: Article

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