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The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs

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Logic, Language and Meaning

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We present an analysis of implicative verbs, complement-taking verbs which induce entailment-like inferences, but which are also claimed to trigger presuppositions. What is presupposed, however, is much more variable than with e.g. factive verbs. Sketching a formal treatment in Logical Description Grammar we consider the role of pragmatic reasoning and accommodation in deriving these presuppositions.

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  1. Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Noor van Leusen

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  1. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Maria Aloni , Floris Roelofsen , Galit W. Sassoon , Katrin Schulz  & Matthijs Westera , , ,  & 

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    Vadim Kimmelman

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van Leusen, N. (2012). The Accommodation Potential of Implicative Verbs. In: Aloni, M., Kimmelman, V., Roelofsen, F., Sassoon, G.W., Schulz, K., Westera, M. (eds) Logic, Language and Meaning. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7218. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31482-7_43

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