The required reading for next Thursday’s class is section 4.3.2 of the Levinson chapter on Presupposition. Â (You’ve already read sections 4.0-4.2; section 4.3.2 is part of the same PDF document.)
As I mentioned in today’s lecture, I’m also posting the following paper in the “Readings” section of the website, which is optional for next Thursday:
Karttunen, Lauri. 1973. “Presuppositions of Compound Sentences”.
The Karttunen paper addresses many of the same topics as the Levinson reading. Â In fact, the Karttunen paper is the original source for these observations and ideas, and constitutes one of the landmark papers on presupposition in the linguistics literature. Â For that reason, it’s worth having a look at it. Â (Some of the example sentences are pretty fun too.) Â The paper assumes nothing more than propositional logic, so all of us are now in a position to follow it.