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Journal of Semantics 1992 9(3):251-286; doi:10.1093/jos/9.3.251
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Presuppositions and WH-clauses

ALLAN RAMSAY

Department of Computer Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

We develop a formal framework for discussing presuppositions, based on the notion that meaning should be seen as a relation between information states. We then provide treatments of some specific presuppositional constructions within this framework in an attempt to show that these constructions can be described using rather simpler syntactic rules than are usually employed


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