Parasitic attitudes, factivity variation, and 'imagine whether'

Autor:	Liefke, Kristina
Rok vydání:	2022
Předmět:	anti-rogativity 'imagine whether' factivity variation English experiential attitudes parasitic attitudes 'remember whether' selectional restrictions
DOI:	10.17605/osf.io/esvwk
Popis:	Representational counterfactual attitude verbs (e.g. 'imagine') typically reject 'whether'-complements. This paper traces the source of this rejection. I argue that the difference between 'imagine whether' (?) and 'remember whether' (ok) is explained through (i) the parasitic dependence of the matrix attitude on an experience and through (ii) the ‘decidedness assumption’ (i.e. ‘p is true’) in the classical interpretation of 'whether q' (i.e. ‘p is true and [p = q or p = ¬q]’). I observe that 'whether' -clauses are only found when the complement is interpreted at a ‘veridical experience’-alternative (as is often the case for 'remember', but rarely for 'imagine'). I give a compositional semantics that captures this restriction.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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