But it arguably improves on DRT in some respects: it can generate genuine conditional presuppositions and it yields more adequate results for some quantified examples. The resulting analysis emulates some desirable results of DRT-notably its solution to the ‘Proviso Problem’ (Geurts 1999).
Recently, theorists have tried to develop general, non-stipulative accounts of local contexts (Schlenker, 2009 Ingason,2016 Mandelkern & Romoli,2017a).
Here we allow a presupposition to be indexed with other local contexts, and we propose, following van der Sandt (1992) and Zeevat (1992), that presuppositions are preferably anaphoric to the highest possible context. Subclausal Local Contexts Amir Anvari Kyle Blumberg Abstract One of the central topics in semantic theory over the last few decades concerns the nature of local contexts. The most influential one was that presupposition projection is computed by a pragmatic mechanism based on a notion of ‘local context’. In standard satisfaction theories, a presupposition must be entailed by its local context. Local contexts and local meanings Schlenker, Philippe 00:00:00 Stalnaker (1978) made two seminal claims about presuppositions. The latter offered a way to annotate every sentence with variables that denote the various local context sets that play a crucial role in Heim’s satisfaction theory (Heim 1983). In this note, we reconstruct some results of the DRT analysis of presupposition projection within the theory of local contexts of Schlenker (2009).
