ON THE SUSTAINABILITY OF THE SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDING OF PRESUPPOSITIONS

Abstract

The paper deals with presuppositions and their basic characteristics, as well as the still unresolved question of whether they are a semantic or pragmalinguistic phenomenon. Special emphasis is placed on the connection between presuppositions and individual lexical elements and syntactic structures, questioning the belief that it is possible to always link a particular presupposition to a specific lexical-syntactic element, i.e., the opinion that there are so-called guarantors of presuppositions. In addition, the paper discusses a very specific problem of projection of presuppositions, i.e., their transfer from a clause to a complex sentence in which that clause is included.