A uniform semantics for declarative and interrogative complements

A uniform semantics for declarative and interrogative complements. Theiler, N., Roelofsen, F., & Aloni, M. Journal of Semantics, 35(3):409–466, 2018.

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This paper proposes a semantics for declarative and interrogative complements and for so-called responsive verbs, like know and forget, which embed both kinds of complements. Following Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984), we pursue a uniform account in the sense that we take both kinds of complements to be of the same semantic type and we assume a single lexical entry for each responsive verb. This approach avoids a number of problems for non-uniform theories, such as the reductive theories of Karttunen (1977), Heim (1994), Lahiri (2002), Spector & Egré (2015), among others, and the twin relations theory of George (2011). On the other hand, our account also addresses the main limitation of Groenendijk & Stokhof's (1984) proposal, which is that it is primarily designed to derive strongly exhaustive readings for interrogative complements. Our account is more flexible in that it straightforwardly derives non-exhaustive and intermediate exhaustive readings as well.

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	abstract = {This paper proposes a semantics for declarative and interrogative complements and for so-called responsive verbs, like know and forget, which embed both kinds of complements. Following Groenendijk & Stokhof (1984), we pursue a uniform account in the sense that we take both kinds of complements to be of the same semantic type and we assume a single lexical entry for each responsive verb. This approach avoids a number of problems for non-uniform theories, such as the reductive theories of Karttunen (1977), Heim (1994), Lahiri (2002), Spector & Egr{\'e} (2015), among others, and the twin relations theory of George (2011).

On the other hand, our account also addresses the main limitation of Groenendijk & Stokhof's (1984) proposal, which is that it is primarily designed to derive strongly exhaustive readings for interrogative complements. Our account is more flexible in that it straightforwardly derives non-exhaustive and intermediate exhaustive readings as well.},
	author = {Theiler, Nadine and Roelofsen, Floris and Aloni, Maria},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	doi = {10.1093/jos/ffy003},
	journal = {Journal of Semantics},
	keywords = {attitude predicates,inquisitive semantics,modality,questions,theoretical linguistics,exhaustivity},
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	number = {3},
	pages = {409--466},
	title = {{A uniform semantics for declarative and interrogative complements}},
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	volume = {35},
	year = {2018},
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