Exercise Types of 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

existential	factive	lexical	structural	non-factive	counterfactual
						A: The fair boy shook his head. B: There is a boy who is fair.
						A: I stopped eating meat. B: I used to eat meat
						A: What movie did you end up watching last friday? B: The addressee watched a movie last friday.
						A: I wish I wouldn't have eaten these delicious fries with extra ketchup, now I have to get changed. B: The speaker has eaten these delicious fries with extra ketchup.
						A: If I would not have eaten so much over the holidays I would still fit my favorite jeans. B: The speaker has eaten so much over the holidays.
						A: Alex knew that Chris didn't call. B: Chris didn't call.
						A: It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses. B: I have lost my glasses somewhere.

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 ---+-+ '''A''': If I would not have eaten so much over the holidays I would still fit my favorite jeans. '''B''': The speaker has eaten so much over the holidays.
 || The counterfactual ''if'' clause structurally triggers that the negation of the proposition in the ''if'' clause is presupposed.
--++--- Alex knew that Chris didn't call.
+-++--- '''A''': Alex knew that Chris didn't call. '''B''': Chris didn't call.
 || ''know'' is a factive verb, i.e., the truth of its complement is presupposed.
+---+-- '''A''': It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses. '''B''': I have lost my glasses somewhere.
+|| In an''it''-cleft the truth of the ''that''-clause is structurally presupposed.
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