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ENTAILMENT 41 Presupposition 42 Types of Presupposition 43 The Projection Problem 44 Ordered Entailment Introduction something that the speaker assumes to be the case before making an utterance. 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?. 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.. 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. 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. definite. ( For Wexler,this difference is a difference in the child 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 and Paraphrasing. MSR Paraphrase Corpus. 1. Amrozi. accused his brother, whom he called "the witness", of deliberately distorting his evidence.. Referring to him as only "the witness", . Amrozi. 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. .