Exercise Presuppositions: Difference between revisions

From Lexical Resource Semantics
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Line 17: Line 17:
- Someone didn't 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.
|| If this can be inferred at all, it would be an implicature.
|| If this can be inferred at all, it would be an implicature.


{ I want more milk for my tea!
{ I want more milk for my tea!

Revision as of 23:26, 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

Presuppositions

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

1 Would you mind washing up the dishes this time?

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.

2 I want more milk for my tea!

I hate tea with milk.
I am having tea.
Someone has already put milk in his/her tea.
I do not like my tea with the amount of milk that is currently in the tea.


Navigation