Open AccessSome Lakhota Presuppositions
Author(s) -
David S. Rood
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
colorado research in linguistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1937-7029
pISSN - 0884-2035
DOI - 10.33011/cril.7.1.6
Subject(s) - presupposition , linguistics , object (grammar) , sentence , subject (documents) , class (philosophy) , noun , motion (physics) , space (punctuation) , psychology , mathematics , computer science , philosophy , artificial intelligence , library science
Three classes of utterances in which Lakhóta speakers reveal presuppositions include (a) statements and questions about the location of objects; (b) sentences utilizing indefinite noun phrases in so-called opaque contexts; and (c) sentences which include verbs of motion and goals of that motion. In the first class, presuppositions are about the orientation of the object in space; in the second class, they are bout the specificity of the indefinite noun, and in the third class, they involve both the relevant mental position of the speaker with respect to the goal and the degree of his identification with the subject of the sentence.