Presuppositions in Spoken Discourse

Accommdation
Binding
Total number
of
tokens
Trigger type
81
(74%)
{38}
28
(26%)
{9}
0
109
{47} 1
0
0
0
subject
complement
object
complement
subject
complement
object
complement
factive
verbs
factive
adjective
s
58
(85%)
12
(39%)
10
(15%)
19
(61%)
1st
aspectual
verbs
31
it-clefts
2nd
1st
2nd
1st
2nd
1st
annotator
155
(40%)
82
(35%)
10
(21%)
63
(58%)
115
(28%)
56
(22%)
9
(19%)
50
(45%)
113
(30%)
67
(28%)
137
(33%)
78
(31%)
390
411
definite NPs 2
235
248
the NP
16
(34%)
27
(50%)
47
53
demonstrative NPs
Table 2 Number of tokens of each trigger type, number of
tokens for each lexical item of each trigger type
30)
(28%)
32
(29%)
108
110
possessives
2 (4%)
43 (96%)
45
too
Data and Method
1 The number given in curly brackets is the number of present tense know with you as their
subject. These examples are not given again in later tables because it was not possible to reliably
determine their form.
2 411 and 390 were the total number of NPs annotated by each annotator. Accommodation
included only examples that were considered new by both annotators, and binding includes only
those considered to refer to be co-referential by both annotators. Not shown are the figures for
130 bridging NPs (see chapter 6) and 29 deictic NPs for the first annotator, as well as for 90
bridging NPs and 32 deictic NPs for the second annotator. See Table 13 for more information.
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