A contrastive analysis of French and Hebrew prepositions

Feigenbaum, Susanne

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“…One must be careful when looking at previous work which apparently discusses presuppositions of adpositions; this is because aside from their technical sense, presuppose and presupposition have everyday senses which are somewhat different, 2 and even linguists may sometimes use these words in the latter senses, or they may think that they are using these terms in the standard linguistic senses when they are not. Consider, for example, Feigenbaum’s ( 2002 ) paper on prepositions of French and Hebrew, in which these words occur several times, first in relation to the following examples (p. 171), which are given to illustrate the “deletive” meaning of French sans ‘without’: (1a) une maison sans jardin ‘a house without a garden’ (1b) une maison avec un jardin ‘a house with a garden’ …”

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Adpositions and presuppositions

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2016

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This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them, or (3) the presuppositions involved are not unique to adpositions. Some adpositions, e.g. despite, have been claimed to be factive, and thus could be presupposition triggers, but it is difficult to determine this, due to the fact that their complements are arguably always themselves presupposition triggers. On the other hand, directional adpositions are clearly presuppositional, as they trigger presuppositions about the location of an object/or entity before or after the motion whose description they are partly responsible for. Such facts may lead one to speculate about word classes and presuppositionality in general, and I will briefly discuss this issue.

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Section: Adpositional “Presuppositions” Which May Not Be Such or Whicmentioning

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Adpositions and presuppositions

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A contrastive analysis of French and Hebrew prepositions

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