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Journal of Semantics, doi:10.1093/jos/ffh026
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
Received March 15, 2003
Revised March 30, 2004

Special Issue Article

A Modal Analysis of Presupposition and Modal Subordination

Robert van Rooij 1*

1 Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Robert van Rooij, E-mail: R.A.M.vanRooij{at}uva.nl


  Abstract

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 prepositional 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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