Computational Linguistics Colloquium

Thursday, February 28, 16:15, Building 17, Seminar Room

An overview of a theory for presupposition justification

This talk is about a theory of presupposition satisfaction and accommodation. Presupposition justification is reconstructed as abductive inference. This is motivated by accommodation phenomena.

I will explain the differences to related previous theories (in particular, those of Van der Sandt 1992 and Beaver 1995) by discussing examples in detail.

If you would like to meet with the speaker, please contact Katrin Erk.