Same and different are additive presupposition triggers

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The particle *too* has long been known to trigger an additive presupposition*, *namely that a proposition that contrasts minimally with the host of *too *is true in the context. We show that the adjectives *same *and *different *also generate additive presuppositions and argue that these adjectives decompose into two parts: *too* and a (non-)identity predicate. We show how this proposal accounts for known properties of *same* and *too *(parallelism effects and internal readings) as well as a previously unsolved puzzle regarding the distribution of *same *and *different *in comparative constructions.

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