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Weak and strong triggers

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The idea that presupposition triggers have different intrinsic properties has gradually made its way into the literature on presuppositions and become a current assumption in most approaches. The distinctions mentioned in the different works have been based on introspective data, which seem, indeed, very suggestive. In this paper, we take a different look at some of these distinctions by using a simple experimental approach based on judgment of naturalness about sentences in various contexts. We show that the alleged difference between weak (or soft) and strong (or hard) triggers is not as clear as one may wish and that the claim that they belong to different lexical classes of triggers is probably much too strong.

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Linguistique
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hal-01073507 , version 1 (10-10-2014)

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Jacques Jayez, Valeria Mongelli, Anne Reboul, Jean-Baptiste van Der Henst. Weak and strong triggers. 2013. ⟨hal-01073507⟩
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