Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
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Chapter 5<br />
Trigger<strong>in</strong>g<br />
construction<br />
Total<br />
Accommodation<br />
Ma<strong>in</strong> Global Local B<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g<br />
fact verbs<br />
109 81(74%) 59(54%) 10(9%)<br />
12<br />
(11%) 28(26%)<br />
aspectualverbs<br />
68 58(85%) 43 (63)% 13(19%) 2(3%) 10(15%)<br />
it-clefts 31 12(38.7%) 10 (32)% 2(6.4%) - 19(61%)<br />
too 45 2(4.4%) 1 (2.2%) 1 (2.2%) - 43(95%)<br />
5.1.1 Accommodation <strong>in</strong> the Ma<strong>in</strong> DRS<br />
Ma<strong>in</strong> accommodation was the most frequent resolution for presuppositions<br />
<strong>in</strong>duced by all trigger types, except for too. In the first example below the<br />
presupposed material is triggered by the factive verb realize. The speaker is<br />
describ<strong>in</strong>g his experiences when he returned to teach<strong>in</strong>g and how teach<strong>in</strong>g methods<br />
had changed. In the second example, the trigger<strong>in</strong>g expression is the aspectual<br />
particle verb carry on, which presupposes that the activity <strong>in</strong> question was occurr<strong>in</strong>g<br />
before the reference time of the utterance. The topic is how the general disorder <strong>in</strong><br />
your household will <strong>in</strong>crease when you have children.<br />
2 Note that the figures for accommodation only <strong>in</strong>clude examples that were considered new by<br />
both annotators. See Table 13 for figures for b<strong>in</strong>d<strong>in</strong>g as well as for NPs that were considered<br />
related to the discourse, e.g. bridg<strong>in</strong>g NPs.<br />
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Table 5 Accommodation of abstract triggers by trigger type<br />
Trigger<br />
Type<br />
Total 2 Acc Ma<strong>in</strong> Global Local<br />
Annotator 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 2nd 1st 2 1st 2nd<br />
def<strong>in</strong>ite<br />
NPs<br />
248 235<br />
56<br />
(22%)<br />
82<br />
(35%)<br />
39<br />
(16%)<br />
60<br />
(25%)<br />
14<br />
(6%)<br />
23<br />
(10%)<br />
0 0<br />
demonst<br />
NPs<br />
53 47<br />
9<br />
(17%)<br />
10<br />
(21%)<br />
7<br />
(13%)<br />
8<br />
(17%)<br />
1<br />
(2%)<br />
2<br />
(4%)<br />
0 0<br />
possessi<br />
ves<br />
110 108<br />
50<br />
(45%)<br />
63<br />
(58%)<br />
33<br />
(30%)<br />
40<br />
(37%)<br />
15<br />
(14%)<br />
23<br />
(21%)<br />
0 0<br />
TOTAL<br />
411 390<br />
115<br />
(28%)<br />
155<br />
(40%)<br />
79<br />
(19%)<br />
108<br />
(28%)<br />
30<br />
(7%)<br />
48<br />
(12%)<br />
0 0<br />
Table 6. Accommodation of def<strong>in</strong>ite NPs by trigger type. The double columns for<br />
def<strong>in</strong>ite NPs represent the tagg<strong>in</strong>g results of the first and second annotator, <strong>in</strong> that<br />
order.
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