An Original Exploration of Non-typical Semantic Presupposition of Interrogative Sentence
Yueping Wang · 2006
Semantic presupposition can be divided into typical semantic presupposition and non-typical semantic presupposition.The non-typical semantic presupposition of yes-no question and affirmative-negative question is usually an exclusive disjunctive proposition.The non-typical semantic presupposition of alternative question is usually an exclusive proposition and sometimes an inclusive proposition.The non-typical semantic presupposition of special question is usually a declarative sentence made by the replacement of the interrogative in an interrogative sentence with having x or certain x.The presupposition of interrogative sentence is the presupposition of the asker,not the probable answer of the replier.