Change of State and Factive Nominals and Nominalizations as Presupposition Triggers

This paper aims to verify that nominal forms corresponding to change of state predicates and factive predicates are presupposition triggers as well as their verbal equivalents. We support this idea by providing data mainly from IMPAQTS, a corpus pragmatically annotated for implicit contents (namely presuppositions, conventional and conversational implicatures, vagueness and topicalization). We also compare nominal and verbal triggers discussing their different presuppositional strength.