Presupposition : an (un)common attitude? / Robert Van Rooij -- Pragmatic strategies / Rob van der Sandt -- Have you noticed that your belly button lint color is related to the color of your clothing? / David Beaver -- Accomodation and reaccomodation in dialogue / Robin Cooper and Staffan Larsson -- Specific indefinites, presupposition and scope / Bart Geurts -- Deixis, binding and presupposition / Nicholas Asher -- Become and its presuppositions / Manfred Bierwisch -- Only if an indefinite is topical, the pronoun picks it up / Paul Dekker -- Good and bad transitive arguments / Michael Morreau -- Private adjectives : subsective plus coercion / Barbara H. Partee
Summary
Undoubtedly, presupposition theory is a major chapter in the success story of dynamic semantics. This book features papers on this topic based on a conference on ""Presupposition"" convened in Stuttgart in October 2000
Notes
"The conference on presupposition which we convened in Stuttgart in October 2000 ... gave rise to the papers in this collection"--Page xi-xii
