Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse
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Chapter 3<br />
Presupposition trigger Excerpted types<br />
factive verbs<br />
with sentential subject complement count, make sense, suffice, amuse, bother, matter<br />
with sentential object complement know, realize, resent, f<strong>in</strong>d out, discover, see, notice<br />
factive adjectives<br />
with sentential object complement<br />
with sentential subject complement<br />
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glad, proud, lucky<br />
significant, odd, tragic, excit<strong>in</strong>g, relevant<br />
aspectual verbs beg<strong>in</strong>, start, stop, f<strong>in</strong>ish, cease, cont<strong>in</strong>ue, carry on,<br />
avoid, force, prevent, hesitate<br />
it-clefts it is/was C i which/whom/that S-C 1<br />
def<strong>in</strong>ite NPs<br />
def<strong>in</strong>ite NPs the N, ‘dhi’ N<br />
demonstrative NPs this N, that N, those N, these N<br />
possessives genitive’s +N, possessive pronoun + N<br />
too Jennifer likes to eat chocolate too.<br />
Table 1 Excerpted Triggers
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