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The satisfaction theory of presupposition projection found in Heim 1983 has paved the way for a successful research tradition within dynamic semantics which has given rise to compositional analyses of a variety of projection behaviors. Since Geurts 1996, however, the promise of this research program has been called into question due to what Geurts dubs the “proviso problem”: satisfaction theory generates incorrect predictions in cases in which a presupposition ends up filtered which should not have been. I show that the satisfaction account of presupposition projection is nevertheless in good shape by revealing that the observations of Geurts are valid only under certain basic assumptions about how semantic composition works. To illustrate this, I present a satisfaction account of presupposition projection that incorporates a notion of scope-taking based on monads . The resulting composition scheme provides a setting in which the proviso problem does not arise, thus lending support to the scope theory of presupposition projection.
Heim 1983提出的预设投射的满足理论为动态语义学的一个成功的研究传统铺平了道路,这一传统催生了对各种投射行为的组合分析。然而,自Geurts 1996年以来,由于Geurts所称的“前提条件问题”,这一研究项目的前景一直受到质疑:在假设最终被过滤掉的情况下,满足理论会产生不正确的预测,而这些预测本不应该被过滤掉。我通过揭示格茨的观察结果只有在关于语义构成如何工作的某些基本假设下才是有效的,表明了预设投射的满足度是良好的。为了说明这一点,我提出了一个对预设投射的满意描述,其中包含了基于单子的范围选取概念。由此产生的构成方案提供了一个不出现前提条件问题的环境,从而为预设投射的范围理论提供了支持。