Exercise Presupposition or entailment: Difference between revisions
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+- '''A''': The Queen of England attended a cooking workshop. '''B''': There is a queen of England. | +- '''A''': The Queen of England attended a cooking workshop. '''B''': There is a queen of England. | ||
|| Negation test: The '''B''' sentence can also be inferred from the negation of the '''A''' sentence (''The Queen of England did not attend a cooking workshop.''). Also: A definite NP has an existential presupposition. | || Negation test: The '''B''' sentence can also be inferred from the negation of the '''A''' sentence (''The Queen of England did not attend a cooking workshop.''). Also: A definite NP has an existential presupposition. | ||
-+ My dog Richard was killed in a car accident. | -+ '''A''': My dog Richard was killed in a car accident. '''B''': My dog Richard is dead. | ||
|| The | || The negation test does not work here: The negation of '''A''' (''My dog Richard was not killed in a car accident.'') does not allow us to infer '''B'''. However, '''B''' is not cancellable: We cannot, without creating a contradiction, continue '''A''' by ''but, in fact, Richard isn't dead.'' | ||
</quiz> | </quiz> | ||
Revision as of 23:09, 8 September 2013
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
Presupposition or entailment?