Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 10 James Madison University

1. Do Exercise 21, just examples a through d, at the back of Chapter 4.
2. And some more practice with entailments:
   1. What kind of entailment describes the relation between the sentence "Sharon ate some oreos" and Sharon ate some cookies"? Explain.
   2. And what is the kind of entailment between "Sharon ate 100 oreos yesterday." and "Sharon did not lose weight yesterday." Explain.
3. Examine the following lexical entries for the verbs "float" and "drop" and then answer the questions below (note that, simply for formatting reasons, semi-colons are replacing the angle brackets used in our textbook):
   FLOAT: {boat; raft; bubble; cloud; leaf}
   DROP: { Charlie, pumpkin; Bernice, watermelon; Buddy, bone; Vic, package; Margo, pumpkin}
   
   1. Based on semantic rules 1 and 2, what is the meaning of each of the following:
      
      1. A cloud floats.
      2. An angel floats.
      3. Buddy drops the pumpkin.
      4. Francois drops the pumpkin.
      5. Vic drops the package.
   2. Based on just semantic rule 2, what is the meaning of each of the following:
      
      1. drops a watermelon
      2. drops a pumpkin
      3. drops a key
4. After rereading the discussion of performative utterances in Chapter 4, attempt Exercise 17, just examples a through f .
5. After rereading the discussion of implicatures in Chapter 4, attempt Exercise 24, just examples a and b and Exercise 25, also just examples a and b.

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