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I can't believe it's not lexical: Deriving distributed veridicality
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Roberts, Tom |
| Copyright Year | 2019 |
| Abstract | Given the assumption that selection is a strictly local relationship between a head and its complement, we expect the ability of a head to take a particular argument to be insensitive to linguistic material above that head. The verb believe poses a puzzle under this view: while believe ordinarily only permits declarative clausal complements, interrogative complements are allowed when believe occurs under clausal negation and can or will , and a veridical reading becomes available. I argue that this provides evidence that believe is not simply a standard Hintikkan representational belief verb, but rather is fundamentally question-embedding,and that the verb's lexical semantics, including an excluded middle presupposition, interact with the modal and negation to derive the veridicality of can't believe . I conclude that veridicality need not be lexical: the right mix of semantic ingredients can conspire to yield a veridical interpretation, even if those ingredients are distributed across multiple lexical items. |
| Starting Page | 665 |
| Ending Page | 685 |
| Page Count | 21 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3765/salt.v29i0.4634 |
| Volume Number | 29 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/download/29.665/4230 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v29i0.4634 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
