How to be Mistaken and Still Happy: Belief-Relative Presuppositions and Factivity Illusions

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School of Arts & Sciences::Department of Linguistics::University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics
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Thalmann, Maik
Matticchio, Andrea
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Certain emotive predicates have traditionally been analyzed as triggering both a factive and a belief-relative presupposition. In this paper, we explore datapoints that show that these two inferences have a different status, such that the factive presupposition behaves as a cancelable pragmatic inference, but the belief-relative presupposition does not. We offer an account that makes sense of this contrast by introducing a new pragmatic principle, which we call Echochamber, that derives the factive inference from the belief-relative presupposition and unifies these cases with the similar pattern that arises when a presupposition trigger is embedded in the scope of an attitude predicate.

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