This research attempts to study presupposition triggers in the dialogues of Lawrence＇s Sons and Lovers on the basis of the self-compiled corpus. After analyzing the usage and percentage of the triggers,it is found that lexical triggers take more percentage than the syntactic ones. And the verb triggers（ especially the change-of-state verbs） are applied more frequently than any other kinds.Among the syntactic presupposition triggers,interrogative sentences are employed most. The application of all these triggers enrich the diversity of the la...
