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Saul A. Kripke
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Publisher: Journals Gateway
Linguistic Inquiry (2009) 40 (3): 367–386.
Published: 01 July 2009
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Writers on presupposition, and on the “projection problem” of determining the presuppositions of compound sentences from their component clauses, traditionally assign presuppositions to each clause in isolation. I argue that many presuppositional elements are anaphoric to previous discourse or contextual elements. In compound sentences, these can be other clauses of the sentence. We thus need a theory of presuppositional anaphora, analogous to the corresponding pronominal theory.