TYPES OF PRESUPPOSITION

A: The fair boy shook his head.

B: There is a boy who is fair.

What type of presupposition is B/

• existential

• factive

• lexical

• structural

• non-factive

A: I stopped eating meat

B: I used to eat meat.

What type of presupposition is B?

• existential

• factive

• lexical

• structural

• non-factive

A: What movie did you end up watching last Friday?

B: The adressee watched a movie last Friday.

What type of presupposition is B?

• factive

• lexical

• structural

• counterfactual

A: It was in the opera that I have lost my glasses

B: I have lost my glasses somewhere.

What type of presupposition is B?

• existential

• factive

• lexical

• structural

A: If I hadn't have eaten so much over the holiday, I would still fit my favorite jeans.

B: The speaker has eaten so much over the holidays.

What types of presupposition are B?

• structural

• counterfactual

• factive

• non-factive

A: Alex knows that Chris didn't call.

B: Chris didn't call.

What types of presupposition are B?

• existental

• factive

• non-factive

• lexical

A: He pretended to be careless and dropped the vase.

B: He wasn't careless.

What type of presupposition is B?

• non-factive

• structural

• lexical

• counterfactual

A: Are you still such a bad driver?

B: You was a bad driver.

What types of presupposition is B?

• lexical

• structural

• factive

• counterfactual

A: He managed to get on with her, but he didn't success.

B: He tried to get on with her.

What type of presupposition is B?

• non-factive

• lexical

• counterfactual

• structural

A: The boy named Harry was handsome.

B: A boy called harry exists.

What type of presupposition is B?

• structural

• lexical

• factive

• existential