Presuppositions and two kinds of negation

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/LEA.239.0.3237153" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/LEA.239.0.3237153</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2143/LEA.239.0.3237153" target="_blank" >10.2143/LEA.239.0.3237153</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Presuppositions and two kinds of negation

Original language description

In this paper I deal with sentences that come with a presupposition that is entailed by the positive as well as negated form of a given sentence. However, there are two kinds of negation, namely narrow-scope and wide-scope negation. I am going to prove that while the former is presupposition-preserving, the latter is presupposition-denying. Thus the main contribution of this paper is the proof that these two kinds of negation are not equivalent. This issue has much in common with the difference between topic and focus articulation within a sentence. Whereas articulating the topic of a sentence activates a presupposition, articulating the focus frequently yields merely an entailment. My background theory is Transparent Intensional Logic (TIL). TIL is an expressive logic apt for the analysis of sentences with presuppositions, because in TIL we work with partial functions, in particular with propositions with truth-value gaps. Moreover, procedural semantics of TIL makes it possible to define a general analytic schema of sentences associated with presuppositions, which is another novel contribution of this paper.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA15-13277S" target="_blank" >GA15-13277S: Hyperintensional logic for natural language analysis</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Logique et analyse

ISSN

0024-5836

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

60

Issue of the periodical within the volume

239

Country of publishing house

BE - BELGIUM

Number of pages

19

Pages from-to

245-263

UT code for WoS article

000410872000004

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85030762164