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This is a revised and expanded version of the second chapter of Geurts (1995). I should like to thank Hans Kamp, Rob van der Sandt, and two reviewers forL & P, as well as David Beaver, Emiel Krahmer, and Marc Ronthaler.
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Geurts, B. Local satisfaction guaranteed: A presupposition theory and its problems. Linguist Philos 19, 259–294 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00628201
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