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PRESUPPOSITION
AND
ENTAILMENT
By: http://www.kau.edu.sa/SBANJER
Dr. Shadia Y. Banjar http://wwwdrshadiabanjar.blogspot.com
A is
something the speaker
assumes to be the
case prior to make an
utterance.
Dr. Shadia Y. Banjar 4
•Speakers, not sentences,
have presuppositions,
symbolized as >> .
EXAMPLE:
p >>q = p presupposes q
we can presuppose
that Tony exists and
that he has a car.
I wasn’t aware that she was married. (>> She was married)
It isn’t odd that he left early. (>> He left early)