TY - JOUR AU - Solstad, Torgrim PY - 2019/08/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Word-Meaning and Sentence-Internal Presupposition JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 10 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.18148/sub/2006.v10i2.735 UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/735 SP - 317-332 AB - <p>The German causal preposition <em>durch </em>(’by’, ’through’) poses a challenge to formal-semantic analyses applying strict compositionality. To deal with this challenge, a formalism which builds on recent important developments in Discourse Representation Theory is developed, including a more elaborate analysis of presuppositional phenomena as well as the integration into the theory of unification as a mode of composition. &nbsp;It is argued that that the observed unificational phenomena belong in the realm of pragmatics, providing an argument for presuppositional phenomena at a sentence- and word-internal level.</p> ER -