LING 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Presupposition, Broccoli
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Lecture 20: meaning beyond truth conditions 1: presuppositions. The final exam for this course will be closed-book. I"ve never met the king of canada. The student who won the ling 100 million-dollar lottery has quit the course and moved to bahamas. Presuppositions: the sentences above sound somehow infelicitous (odd, inappropriate). Wrongly presupposes that there is a final exam for this course. Wrongly presupposes that there is a king of canada. Wrongly presupposes that there is a ling 100 million-dollar lottery and a student already won it. A sentence a presupposes a sentence b = the truth of b is taken for granted whenever a is asserted. A = sam broke his leg again. B = sam broke his leg on a previous occasion. If b is not true and someone utters a, then a will sound infelicitous. Presupposes that? somebody other than joan is rich. Mathilda finally realized that he wasn"t that into her.
