Introduction to Linguistics - Assignment 9 James Madison University

1. Write down at least one structural entailment for each of the following sentences. For each, explain how you determined that it is an entailment and how you determined that it is specifically a structural entailment.
   1. Lucille wants a career in television.
   2. Ten trains pass through Harrisonburg each day.
   3. Our goldfish died.
2. Write down at least one lexical entailment for each of the following sentences. For each, explain how you determined that it is an entailment and how you determined that it is specifically a lexical entailment.
   1. The cow jumped over the ocean.
   2. A pediatrician lives in my neighborhood.
3. Examine the pair of sentences below and determine which sentence has a presupposition that the other does not have. What is that presupposition?
   
   • The captain realized that the ship was in danger.
     The captain thought that the ship was in danger.

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