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Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). Burton-Roberts on presupposition and negation. Journal of Linguistics, 26(2), 425-453. doi:10.1017/S0022226700014730.
Abstract
In his paper ‘On Horn's dilemma: presupposition and negation’ Burton-Roberts (1989a) presents an ambitious programme, formulated right at the outset. He seeks to establish three points: (i) Under the ‘standard logical definition of presupposition’ a pre-suppositional semantics is INCOMPATIBLE with a SEMANTICALLY AMBIGUOUS NEGATION operator (SAN), on pain of the theory being rendered ‘empirically empty and theoretically trivial’,. (ii) From this it follows that the one unambiguous negation is presupposition preserving. Cases that have been identified as presupposition-cancelling negation should be re-analysed as ‘instances of a pragmatic phenomenon’, not unlike what has been proposed in Horn (1985), that is as METALINGUISTIC NEGATION (MN). (iii) This pragmatic analysis of MN ‘itself implies a presuppositional semantics’, that is to say ‘a presuppositional theory of truth-value gaps’. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). [Review of the book A life for language: A biographical memoir of Leonard Bloomfield by Robert A. Hall]. Linguistics, 29(4), 753-757. doi:10.1515/ling.1991.29.4.719.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). [Review of the book The limits to debate: A revised theory of presupposition by N. Burton-Roberts]. Linguistics, 28(3), 503-516. doi:10.1515/ling.1990.28.3.503.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). Filosofie van de taalwetenschappen. Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff.
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Seuren, P. A. M., & Mufwene, S. S. (1990). Introduction. Linguistics, 28(4), 641-643. doi:10.1515/ling.1990.28.4.641.
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Seuren, P. A. M., & Mufwene, S. S. (
Eds. ). (1990). Issues in Creole lingusitics [Special Issue]. Linguistics, 28(4). -
Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). Serial verb constructions. In B. D. Joseph, & A. M. Zwicky (
Eds. ), When verbs collide: Papers from the 1990 Ohio State Mini-Conference on Serial Verbs (pp. 14-33). Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University, Department of Linguistics. -
Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). Still no serials in Seselwa: A Reply to "Seselwa Serialization and its Significance" by Derek Bickerton. Journal of Pidgin and Creole Languages, 5(2), 271-292.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1990). Verb syncopation and predicate raising in Mauritian Creole. Linguistics, 28(4), 809-844. doi:10.1515/ling.1990.28.4.809.
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Seuren, P. A. M. (1968). [Review of the book Negation and the comparative particle in English by André Joly]. Neophilologus, 52, 337-338. doi:10.1007/BF01515481.
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