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Members

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• Eleris
• Manfred Sailer
• Sabrina
• Suzanne

Our e-learning objects

Our wiki pages

• in the Glossary:
  • Glossary:Synonym: the entry for synonym

Our material for an interactive whiteboard

The files used in the class can be downloaded in notebook format:

• October 16: Slides01.notebook
• October 23: Slides02.notebook
• October 30: Slides03.notebook
• November 6: Slides04.notebook
• November 13: Slides05.notebook
• November 20: Slides06.notebook
• November 27: Slides07.notebook

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  Eleris

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  Manfred Sailer

Our exercises

Online exercises can be created using the quiz formats from: http://de.wikiversity.org/wiki/Wikiversity:Quiz

To include logical symbols, use the html tags: ∀ ∃ ∧ ∨ ⊂ ⊃ ¬

• Exercise on types of ambiguities. Link to the exercise (only one example so far).

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1 (1) Pat didn't know a guest at the party.

Determine the type of the ambiguity

	lexical
	structural
	scope
	collective-distributive

2 Determine which element in the sentence causes the ambiguity.

	the word know
	the negation and the indefinite
	the preposition at

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Cloze text

Synonyms are words that have the same .

Other material

(copied from NMTS-InferencePage#Dialogue_by_User:Manfred)

Dialogue by User:Manfred

The following passage is taken from David Mitchell Cloud Atlas, London: Sceptre, 2004, p.33f.
(Comment: this is not a real dialogue, but the text is clear enough so that it is easy to see what has been said in the described situtation.)

1. Along the gangway I stepped (Prophetess was bucking like a
   
2. young bronco) to the officers' mess, knocked & entered. Mr
   
3. Roderick & Mr Boerhaave were listening to Cpt. Molyneux. I
   
4. cleared my throat and bade all good morning, at which our ami-
   
5. cable captain swore, `You can better my morning by b-ing
   
6. off, instanter!´
8. Coolly, I asked when the captain might find time to hear news
   
9. of an Indian stowaway who had just emerged from the coils of
   
10. hawser taking up my `so-called cabin´. During the ensuing silence
    
11. Cpt. Molyneux's pale, horny-toad complexion turned roast beef
    
12. pink. Ere his blast was launched, I added the stowaway claimed
    
13. to be an able-seaman & begged to work his passage.

Entailment: Line 4: I bade all good morning entails I said something

Presupposition: Lines 8/9: hear news of an Indian stowaway .... Presupposes: there is an Indian stowaway ....
Type of presuppostion: factive
Note 1: it is remarkable that in this case the presupposition projects over a modal (might) and an embedded question (when ...).
Note 2: the factive presupposition with hear is not as strong as with know, realize or the other predicates discussed in class.
Note 3: In line 12, the verb claim is used. Its complement clause's content (the stowaway is an able-seamben) is not presupposed.

Implicature: Lines 10: my so-called cabin. Implicature: my cabin is not a proper cabin (because of all the stored hawser)
Type of implicature: particularized conversational implicature.
Calculation: The maxim of manner seems to be flouted (be brief) by the apperantly superfluous so-called. The addressee understands that the speaker wants to communicate more than just saying that the stowaway was in his cabin. The attribute so-called indicates that the object does not fully satisfy the criteria of what would count as a real cabin.