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7 - Other Topics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 April 2021

Thomas Grano
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Indiana University
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Here we round up three topics not covered elsewhere in the book. The first is embedded tense, which gives rise to two main puzzles: sequence of tense (embedded past tense that seems not to be interpreted) and double access (embedded present tense that seems to be anchored both to the utterance time and to the matrix evaluation time). We discuss theories of tense in attitude reports that grapple with these puzzles. The second topic is Neg Raising: sometimes, a negated attitude report seems to be interpreted as though the negation were embedded in the complement clause (e.g., a salient reading of Beatrix doesn’t think it’s raining is Beatrix thinks that it’s not raining). We discuss syntactic solutions (negation is pronounced high but interpreted low) as well as semantic/pragmatic solutions (the unexpected interpretation is the result of a semantic or pragmatic inference). Finally, the third topic is intensional transitive verbs, which create attitude reports with ordinary direct objects rather than complement clauses (e.g., Beatrix wants a frisbee or Beatrix is looking for Polly). We discuss the implications of such sentences for the status of intensionality in grammar.

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Attitude Reports , pp. 184 - 206
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Other Topics
  • Thomas Grano, Indiana University
  • Book: Attitude Reports
  • Online publication: 15 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525718.008
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  • Other Topics
  • Thomas Grano, Indiana University
  • Book: Attitude Reports
  • Online publication: 15 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525718.008
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  • Other Topics
  • Thomas Grano, Indiana University
  • Book: Attitude Reports
  • Online publication: 15 April 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108525718.008
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