Abstract
In experimental studies, prosodically-marked pragmatic focus has been found to
influence the projection of factive presuppositions of utterances like these parents didn’t know the kid was gone (Cummins and Rohde, 2015; Tonhauser, 2016; Djarv and Bacovcin, 2017), supporting question-based analyses of projection (i.a., Abrusan, 2011; Abrusan, 2016; Simons ´ et al., 2017; Beaver et al., 2017). However, no prior work has explored whether this effect extends to naturally-occurring utterances. In a large set of naturally-occurring utterances, we find that prosodically-marked focus influences projection in utterances with factive embedding predicates, but not those with non-factive predicates. We argue that our findings support an account where lexical semantics of the predicate contributes to projection to the extent that they admit QUD alternatives that can be assumed to entail the content of the complement.
influence the projection of factive presuppositions of utterances like these parents didn’t know the kid was gone (Cummins and Rohde, 2015; Tonhauser, 2016; Djarv and Bacovcin, 2017), supporting question-based analyses of projection (i.a., Abrusan, 2011; Abrusan, 2016; Simons ´ et al., 2017; Beaver et al., 2017). However, no prior work has explored whether this effect extends to naturally-occurring utterances. In a large set of naturally-occurring utterances, we find that prosodically-marked focus influences projection in utterances with factive embedding predicates, but not those with non-factive predicates. We argue that our findings support an account where lexical semantics of the predicate contributes to projection to the extent that they admit QUD alternatives that can be assumed to entail the content of the complement.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24 |
| Pages | 20-37 |
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| Publication status | Published - 17 Sept 2020 |
| Event | Sinn und Bedeutung 24: Osnabrück 2019 - Institute of Cognitive Science and the Institute of Philosophy at Osnabrück University, Osnabrück, Germany Duration: 4 Sept 2019 → 7 Sept 2019 Conference number: 24 https://sites.google.com/site/sinnundbedeutung24/ |
Publication series
| Name | Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung |
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| Number | 2 |
| Volume | 24 |
| ISSN (Print) | 2629-6055 |
Conference
| Conference | Sinn und Bedeutung 24 |
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| Country/Territory | Germany |
| City | Osnabrück |
| Period | 4/09/19 → 7/09/19 |
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Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- projective content
- attitude predicates
- non-factive predicates
- prosody
- information structure
- Discourse
- presupposition projection