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Presuppositions and Cross-Linguistic Variation *

This paper argues that languages differ in whether they possess pragmatic presuppositions in the sense of Stalnaker (1974). I will argue for this somewhat radical claim on the basis of data from St’át’imcets (a.k.a. Lillooet, Northern Interior Salish). I will show that St’át’imcets displays no evidence for presuppositions which place constraints on the common ground of the discourse. I will present an analysis according to which St’át’imcets possesses presuppositions only in the sense of Gauker (1998).