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Ruth M. Kempson, Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 235; - Deirdre Wilson, Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics. London: Academic Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 161.

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Ruth M. Kempson, Presupposition and the delimitation of semantics (Cambridge Studies in Linguistics, 15). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. Pp. xi + 235;

Deirdre Wilson, Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics. London: Academic Press, 1975. Pp. xiii + 161.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

David Lightfoot
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McGill University, Montreal.

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