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Cho7712 Posted 14 years ago
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Present perfect
i.e. Dole has eaten a plum.
In above sentence, should there be forced implicature that the count object does still remain?
That's the only possible way of understanding this sentence?
Else, does it count to think this sentence as there is no part of plum left now?
In above sentence, should there be forced implicature that the count object does still remain?
That's the only possible way of understanding this sentence?
Else, does it count to think this sentence as there is no part of plum left now?
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cho7712 In above sentence, should there be forced implicature that the count object does still remain? I'm not clear on the exact meaning of "forced implicature", but it seems to me that the count object does not remain because of the verb "eat". The plum is eaten, consumed, gone.
- cho7712 In above sentence, should there be forced implicature that the count object does still remain?
- I'm not clear on the exact meaning of "forced implicature", but it seems to me that the count object does not remain because of the verb "eat".
- The plum is eaten, consumed, gone.
- Did you by chance intend to write ...
- does not still remain ?
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cho7712In above sentence, should there be forced implicature that the count object does still remain?I'm not clear on the exact meaning of "forced implicature", but it seems to me that the count object does not remain because of the verb "eat". The plum is eaten, consumed, gone.
Did you by chance intend to write ... does not still remain
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Thank you CJ,
And what I want to mean by 'forced implicature' is the time span which the present perfect imposes on the meaning.
Now I come to think of it, I get myself obsessed with such an idea ; present perfect must be related to the present
and anything tangible or existent must be accompanied as an argumenthood for present perfect.
I thought something existent must be required
And what I want to mean by 'forced implicature' is the time span which the present perfect imposes on the meaning.
Now I come to think of it, I get myself obsessed with such an idea ; present perfect must be related to the present
and anything tangible or existent must be accompanied as an argumenthood for present perfect.
I thought something existent must be required
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