THE INHERITANCE OF PRESUPPOSITION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- 0. INTRODUCTION -- 1. THE STRUCTURE OF GIVEN INFORMATION -- 1.1 Worlds -- 1. 2 Truth in a world -- 1. 3 Given information -- 1.4 Linguistic processing -- 1.5 The dynamics of given information -- 2. PRESUPPOSITION -- 2.1 The satisfaction of presupposition -- 2.2 Sentential presuppositions -- 3. THE PRESUPPOSITIONS OF COMPLEX SENTENCES -- 3.1 Simple sentences and holes -- 3.2 The simple alteration of presuppositions -- 3.3 Simple conjunctive filtering -- 3.4 Complex oases of filtering -- 3.5 Plugs -- 3.6 Presuppositions of antecedents -- 4. A PERFORMANCE THEORY OF PRESUPPOSITION -- 4.1 Presuppositions as contingent features -- 4.2 Presuppositions associated with implicatures -- 4.3 Normal assumptions about the ways in which presuppositions are satisfied -- 4.4 The cancellation of presuppositions -- 5. CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF ABBREVIATIONS.

This work presents a procedural account of the so-called 'projection problem' for presupposition. It is assumed that presuppositions embedded in complex sentences are subject to no projection rules or ad-hoc conditions whatever, but are in fact satisfied in appropriate contexts in a completely uniform way. It is demonstrated that the apparent filtering, alteration, or preservation of an embedded presupposition is in every case a logical consequence of a general, independently motivated model of language processing and knowledge representation. It is shown in detail that turning the 'projection problem' upside-down in this way leads to a far more explanatory and descriptively adequate account than any previously proposed.

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