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Homework 9.Question 1. a) Identify the following as compositional, that is, direct & performative, or indirbect speech acts. If they are performatives, underline the performative verb.b) Identify each speech act as one of the following: request/command, promise, threat, question, assertion, naming NOTE: use the most specific label that you can. So, a request for information is a question, while a promise that involves something that the Hearer does not want is a threat.c) For all sentences, give the sentence type.Assume all felicity conditions are fulfilled.i. I say that she met the agent.ii. I know that she met the agent.iii. What is the capital of Ohio?iv. I christen thee H.M.S. “Titanic”.v. Will you take out the garbage?vi. I bequeath $1 million to the IRS.vii. Take out the garbage.viii. I order you to take out the garbage.ix. I ordered you to take out the garbage.x. If you do that again, I'll give you a piece of cake.xi. If you do that again, I'll punch you.xii. I would like to know what the capital of Ohio is.xiii. Let me know what the capital of Ohio is.xiv. It would make me very happy if you would take out the garbagexv. I ask you what the capital of Ohio is.More challenging (watch out for features of different kinds of speech acts):xvi. Did you know that Columbus is the capital of Ohio?xvii.Do that again, and you'll owe $1 million to the IRS.xviii. Let me tell you that Columbus is the capital of Ohio.xix. Would you mind terribly if I asked you to take out the garbage?Question 2.A. Is the speaker in (b) drawing the conclusion via entailment from (a)?B. Is the speaker in (b) justified in drawing an implicature from (a) in some situations? Which maxims are exploited in generating the implicature (there could be more than one)?i. a. Jack: Mary has a poodle. b. Sophia: Oh, so Mary has a dog.ii. a. Homer: Maggie, you're my little flower b. Lisa: You think Maggie's so pretty, how about me?iii. a. Sophia: I live in Waltham. b. Sophia: More generally, I live in the USA.iv. a. Jo: The bus I was on had an accident. The driver was drunk. b.Jim: Wow, a drunk BUS driver!v. a. Jo: At least 30 people will come to the party. b. Jim: So, at least 20 people will come to the party.vi. a. Lea: She invited 40 guests. b. Jen: At least she didn't invite 50 guests.vii. a. Lea: Some invitees came to the party. b. Jo: I guess, not all invitees came to the party.viii. a. Ali: Do you want dessert? Kim: Is the Pope Catholic? b. Ali: I knew you'd want dessert.ix. a. Ira: I can make a chocolate cake for the picnic. b. Jo: You have succeeded in making this cake before.x. a. Lo: The man who lives with me is an electrician. b. Jim:He isn't your brother, husband/boyfriend or son1Question 3. Circle or highlight all indexical expressions (also called deictic = involving deixis (pointing)). NOTE: proper names, and DPs that contain the definite article the are not coinsidered to be deictic. Underline all expressions that may or may not be indexical based on the actual utterance and its context.a. At this time, we are unable to provide any information about that man. b. Yonder mountains beckon me to scale their peaks.c. Is your mother at home? - She's not here.d. This article was published in my hometown seven days ago.Question 4. LATTE activity.Post to the LATTE forum on Semantics and


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