Exercise Presuppositions: Difference between revisions

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The following material is an adapted form of material created by student participants of the project e-Learning Resources for Semantics (e-LRS).
Involved participants: Katharina, Caterina, Daniela, Eva

The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Indicate which of the given candidate inferences are presuppositions?

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 | This inference would be an implicature.
 + The dishes needed to be washed up before.
-||''this time'' triggers a presupposition, just as ''again'' does.
+|''this time'' triggers a presupposition, just as ''again'' does.
 - Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
-|| If this can be inferred at all, it would be an implicature.
+| If this can be inferred at all, it would be an implicature.

	There are dishes that need to be washed up.
	I do not have time to do the dishes.
	The dishes needed to be washed up before.
	Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.