semantics yeom jae il presuppositional analysis specific indefinites common grounds structured information states 08153 3175 4 cloth pages 65 garland publishing outstanding dissertations linguistics specific indefinite presupposes someone mind individual property denoted descriptive content individual mind means agent knows referent thus affects information state agent others asymmetric information shared participants conversation represented common ground one information state thus common ground must multiple information states participant conversation information state agent individual mind must differentiated others structured subinformation states subinformation state associates specific indefinite different unique individual conveys information agent individual mind known yet analysis thus requires new dynamic semantics partially representational partially denotational leads new analysis proper names specific indefinites tend widest scope explained claiming specific indefinites trigger presuppositions presuppositions assumed various scopes respect operators sentence strongest reading preferred rational economic basis shown stronger readings roughly correspond wider scopes book interest scholars work indefinite nps presuppositions anaphora belief contexts dynamic semantics general e mail info garland com