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Many theories of presupposition fail to account for the pragmatic nature
of presuppositional justification. An alternative account will be presented
in which accommodation is essentially nonstructural: the material
to be accommodated cannot be predicted purely by consideration of the
form of t...
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Jeroen Groenendijk \& Martin Stokhof \& Frank Veltman,
{\em Coreference and Modality}, to appear in: S.~Lappin~(ed.), Handbook of
Contemporary Semantic Theory, Blackwell, Oxford.
The paper presents an introduction to dynamic semantics. It does so by
providing an update semantics for a language o...
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Jeroen Groenendijk \& Martin Stokhof \& Frank Veltman, {\em Coreference and
Contextually Restricted Quantification}, to appear in: Proceedings SALT V,
DMLL Publications, Cornell.
The aim of this paper is to argue that update semantics is a natural
framework for contextually restricted quantifica...
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Compositionality, by Theo M.V. Janssen
(to appear in J.F.A.K. van Benthem & A. ter Meulen (eds), Handbook of Logic
and Linguistics, North Holland, Amsterdam)
The first topic of the paper is to provide a formalization of the principle
of compositionality of meaning. A mathematical model (based up...
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