What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?
What is Presupposition Accommodation, Again?
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2008
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K. Fintel
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K. Fintel
Presupposition accommodation is the process by which the context is adjusted quietly and without fuss to accept the utterance of a sentence that puts certain requirements on the context in which it is processed. In this paper, I explore some questions about accommodation that are still often asked. There are complaints that the putative process involves mysterious magic and that it is posited only to save a superfluous or wrong theory of presupposition. I hope to do my part in clarifying what presupposition accommodation is. As will become obvious, the paper is a kind of opinionated survey of questions about presupposition accommodation together with my favored answers. In each case, there is much more thought and research that should be done – and more likely than not, much thought and research has been done that I have not adequately digested. What follows is thus a temporary status report about where I am.1