What's wrong with believing whether?

What's wrong with believing whether?. Theiler, N., Roelofsen, F., & Aloni, M. In Burgdorf, D., Collard, J., Maspong, S., & Stefansdottir, B., editors, Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 27), pages 248–265, 2017.

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It is a long-standing puzzle why verbs like believe and think take declarative but not interrogative complements (e.g., *Bill believes whether Mary left), while closely related verbs like know and be certain take both kinds of complements. We show that this contrast can be derived from the fact that believe and think, unlike know and be certain, are neg-raising verbs.

@inproceedings{Theiler:17salt,
	abstract = {It is a long-standing puzzle why verbs like believe and think take declarative but not interrogative complements (e.g., *Bill believes whether Mary left), while closely related verbs like know and be certain take both kinds of complements. We show that this contrast can be derived from the fact that believe and think, unlike know and be certain, are neg-raising verbs.},
	author = {Theiler, Nadine and Roelofsen, Floris and Aloni, Maria},
	booktitle = {Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT 27)},
	date-modified = {2021-08-17 00:00:00 +0000},
	doi = {10.3765/salt.v27i0.4125},
	editor = {Dan Burgdorf and Jacob Collard and Sireemas Maspong and Brynhildur Stefansdottir},
	keywords = {inquisitive semantics,theoretical linguistics,questions,modality,attitude predicates,neg-raising,triviality},
	mendeley-tags = {inquisitive semantics,theoretical linguistics},
	pages = {248--265},
	title = {{What's wrong with believing whether?}},
	url = {https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/27.248},
	year = {2017},
	Bdsk-Url-1 = {https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/27.248},
	Bdsk-Url-2 = {https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v27i0.4125}}

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