Supplemental Reading on Presuppositional Indefinites

A 1998 draft manuscript of mine discusses some of the evidence for a presuppositional reading of indefinites. It can serve as a handout for the first part of tomorrow’s class. In the second half, we’ll talk about Strawson-Entailment.

  • von Fintel, Kai. 1998. “Evidence for Presuppositional Indefinites”:http://semantics-online.org/pragmatics/presupp_indef.pdf. unpublished ms, MIT.