Emedded Questions and `De Dicto' Readings

Author: Sharvit Y.

Source: Natural Language Semantics, Volume 10, Number 2, 2002 , pp. 97-123(27)

Publisher: Springer

Abstract:

It is argued, contra Beck and Rullmann (1999), and with Heim (1994), that the sources of strongly exhaustive interpretations and `de dicto' interpretations of wh-complements of veridical question-embedding verbs are one and the same. Beck and Rullmann's theory is shown to predict certain `de dicto' readings which do not exist, while a particular rendition of Heim's theory is shown to constrain the generation of `de dicto' readings in the correct way.

Language: English

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: Department of Linguistics, University of Connecticut, Unit 1145, Storrs, CT 06269-1145, USA E-mail: yael.shavit@uconn.edu

Publication date: 2002-01-01

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