- Title
- Adpositions and presuppositions
- Creator
- Libert, Alan Reed
- Relation
- SpringerPlus Vol. 5
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2500-2
- Publisher
- SpringerOpen
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them, or (3) the presuppositions involved are not unique to adpositions. Some adpositions, e.g. despite, have been claimed to be factive, and thus could be presupposition triggers, but it is difficult to determine this, due to the fact that their complements are arguably always themselves presupposition triggers. On the other hand, directional adpositions are clearly presuppositional, as they trigger presuppositions about the location of an object/or entity before or after the motion whose description they are partly responsible for. Such facts may lead one to speculate about word classes and presuppositionality in general, and I will briefly discuss this issue.
- Subject
- adpositions; prepositions; presuppositions
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1324422
- Identifier
- uon:25032
- Identifier
- ISSN:2193-1801
- Rights
- © 2016 The Author(s). This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
- Language
- eng
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