Schedule

Meeting 1: Introduction to Presupposition

• Tuesday 14 April 2026
• 17:30– at NINJAL
• Reading
  • Beaver & Geurts (2024) Presupposition. In Zalta & Nodelman (eds.), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
  • Romoli & Sauerland (2017) Presupposition and Acoommodation. In Barron (ed.), The Routleddge Handbook of Pragmatics, pp. 257–276.
• We use the handout from 2018 available here

Meeting 2: Bidimensional Theory and Satisfaction Theory

• Friday 24 April 2026
• 15:00– at Room 1113, Bldg. 18, Komaba campus, University of Tokyo
• Reading:
  • Schlenker (2011) Presupposition projection: Two theories of local contexts (Part I). Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(12): 848–857. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00299.x
  • Heim (1983) On the projection problem for presuppositions. In Proceedings of WCCFL 2, pp. 114–125.
• handout

Meeting 3: Quantified sentences in Satisfaction Theory

• Thursday 30 April 2026
• 15:00– at NINJAL
• Reading
  • Beaver (1994) When variables don’t vary enough. In Proceedings of SALT 4, pp. 35–60. 10.3765/salt.v4i0.2467
  • Chemla (2009) Presuppositions of quantified sentences: experimental data. Natural Language Semantics, 17(4): 299–340. 10.1007/s11050-009-9043-9
• handout

Meeting 4: Trivalent Theory

• Thursday 21 May 2026
• Time and location TBA
• Reading
  • Beaver & Kramer (2001) A partial account of presupposition projection. Journal of Logic, Language and Information, 10: 147–182.
  • Fox (2012) Presupposition projection from quantificational sentences: trivalence, local accommodation, and presupposiiton strengthening. In Caponigro & Cecchetto (eds.), From grammar to meaning: the spontaneous logicality of language, pp. 201–232. doi: 10.1017/CBO9781139519328.011
• Other relevant papers
  • Peters (1979) A truth-conditional formulation of Karttunen’s account of presupposition. Synthese, 40: 301–316. doi: 10.1007/BF00485682
  • George (2008) A new predictive theory of presupposition projection. In Proceedings of SALT 18, pp. 358–375. doi: 10.3765/salt.v18i0.2472
• handout

Meeting 5: Proviso Problem

• Wednesday 3 June 2026
• Reading
  • Mandlkern (2016) A note on the architecture of presupposition. Semantics & Pragmatics, 9(13): 1–24. doi: 10.3765/sp.9.13
  • Mandelkern (2016) Dissatisfaction Theory. In Proceedings of SALT 26, pp. 391–416. doi: 10.3765/salt.v26i0.3804
• Other relevant papers
  • Singh (2007) Formal alternatives as a solution to the proviso problem. In Proceedings of SALT 17, pp. 264–281. doi: 10.3765/salt.v17i0.2960
  • Schlenker (2011) The proviso problem: a note. Natural Language Semantics, 19: 395–422. doi: 10.1007/s11050-011-9072-z
• handout

Meeting 6: Attitude reports and other modal contexts

• Reading
  • Heim (1992) Presupposition projection and the semantics of attitude verbs. Journal of Semantics, 9(3): 183–221. doi: 10.1093/jos/9.3.183
  • Sudo (2014) Presupposition satisfaction in attitude contexts. In Crnič & Sauerland (eds.), The Art and Craft of Semantics, pp. 175–199. link
  • Mandelkern (2016) Dissatisfaction Theory. In Proceedings of SALT 26, pp. 391–416. doi: 10.3765/salt.v26i0.3804
• handout

Meeting 7: Explanatory theories 1

• Reading
  • Schlenker (2008) Be Articulate! A pragmatic theory of presupposition projection. Theoretical Linguistics, 34(3): 157–212. doi: 0.1515/THLI.2008.013
  • Schlenker (2009) Local contexts. Semantics and Pragmatics, 2(3): 1–78. doi: 10.3765/sp.2.3
  • Schlenker (2011) resupposition projection: Two theories of local contexts (Part II). Language and Linguistics Compass, 5(12): 858–879. doi: 10.1111/j.1749-818X.2011.00300.x
• handout

Meeting 8: Explanatory theories 2

• Reading
  • Rothschild (2011) Explaining presupposition projection with dynamic semantics.
• handout

Meeting 9 : Explanatory theories 3

• Reading
  • Kalomoiros & Schwarz
  • Kalomoiros & Elliott

Meeting 10: Presupposition Triggering

• Reading
  • Abrusán (2011a)
  • Abrusán (2011b)
  • Abrusán (2016)