English Linguistics - Assignment 7 James Madison University

[This assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

• Do Exercise 2, examples a-h, on page 210 in your text.
• Do Exercise 6, examples A, B, C, G, and H, on page 212-213 in your text.
• Do Exercise 13, examples a-h, on page 215 in your text.
• Write down at least one entailment for each of the following sentences. (Just do your best with this exercise. This is the one that requires you to try figure out what the semantic idea of entailment is, as described in the text. :) We will discuss entailment and kinds of entailment on Monday!)
  1. Lucille wants a career in television.
  2. The painting that we saw in The Louvre was a little better than mine.
  3. Ten trains pass through Harrisonburg each day.
  4. Our goldfish died.