Presupposition repairs: a static, trivalent approach to predict projection

This paper presents a new theory of presupposition projection sim-ilar to the strong Kleene (1952) trivalent logic. The primary merits of the present theory are its unique and fine-grained predictions regard-ing the presuppositions associated with quantified sentences, and its predictiveness; the issue of overgeneration discussed by Soames (1989) and Heim (1990) is avoided within a static, trivalent theory of pesup-position. A number of alternative theories based on the strong Kleene approach are also explored, and their strengths and weaknesses are compared. (This document is a reformatted version of a thesis submitted o