PPT-Presupposition

and entailment A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance Speakers not sentences have presuppositions An entailment is something that logically follows from what is asserted in the utterance Sentences not speakers have entailments. The study of how presuppositions project is the study of if/when/how the presuppositions of complex sentences are inherited from presuppositions of their parts.. [. IP. ………….[. XP. Sabine . Iatridou. What does it mean to . understand. (the meaning of) a sentence?. Do you understand this sentence?. The . instructor of . this class . is. . wearing glasses. Is it true?. Yes.. Do you understand this sentence?. LIN1180 – Semantics. Lecture 10. Part 1 (from last week). Theories of presupposition: the semantics-pragmatics interface. Two main approaches. Presupposition as a property of sentences. under this view, presupposition is part of linguistic meaning. Presupposition. Presupposition is a necessary PRECONDITION for the processing of communication. It involves the existence of some objects or ideas. Presupposition (2). Here we PRESUPPOSE that there exists something which is as juicy as a fruit.. relations. Presented by:. . Jihan. . Nidhamalddin. &. . Afifa. Ahmed.. M.A students of Applied Linguistics. 2011.. . . . Sense relations. Relations between the meanings of two or more lexemes. They form the links connecting words in the lexicon. . The common ground in a conversation is the set of propositions that the interlocutors agree are true.. Common Grounds differ depending on who the participants are, and the time of conversation. . In our common ground:. Gatt. LIN1180 Semantics. In this lecture. More on the concept of truth. A priori / necessary / analytic. Presupposition. The concept of . truth revisited. Part . 1. Truth conditions. LIN 1180 - Semantics. In his paper :a-iworepantsbeforeand notonW.b-iworepantsbeforeand onW.a-iinotwearpantsonW.b-iiworepantsonW.Presupposition :worepantsbefore W.(withfocalstressonWednesday)Sudo(2012)arguesthatthedistinctionbecomesappa PRESUPPOSITION AND ENTAILMENT. A presupposition is something the speaker assumes to be the case prior to making an utterance. Speakers, not sentences, have presupposition. . Example:. (1) . Mary’s brother bought three houses.. ENTAILMENT. 4.1 Presupposition. 4.2 Types of Presupposition. 4.3 The Projection Problem. 4.4 Ordered Entailment. Introduction. : something that the speaker assumes to be the case before making an utterance. Osoba , Joseph. “ A o f Wole Soyinka ’ s The Trials o f Brother Jero ” , Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies 4 (1/2014), 34 - 49. Joseph Osoba The University of Lagos A Linguistic Anal jadiUhkobuwuohthennamebreathfishtrapTime s3F0 Hz500Figure 1 Acoustic analysis of topic-indicating pitch and pause 2013/11/1315 International workshop on Cross-linguistic Perspective on the Information Focuses. on . the. . literal. . meanings. . of. . words. , . phrases. . and. . sentences. ; . concerned. . with. how . grammatical. . processes. . build. . complex. . meanings. . out. .