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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-The following sentences make certain presuppositions. What are they? Think about possible presuppositions and check "Done" if you're done.
+The following sentences make certain presuppositions. Indicate which of the given candidate inferences are presuppositions?
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 { Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?
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-+ Done
++ There are dishes that need to be washed up.
-|| The utterance "Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?" has the following presuppostions:
++ They were dishes that needed to be washed up before.
-|| # There are dishes that need to be washed up.
++ Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
-|| # They were dishes that need to be washed up before.
++ Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
-|| # Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
-|| # Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
-|| As you can see one sentence can have far more than just '''''one''''' presupposition!!!

	There are dishes that need to be washed up.
	They were dishes that needed to be washed up before.
	Someone didn't wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.
	Someone else did wash up the dishes the last time they needed to be washed up.