Experiments on the acceptability and possible readings of questions embedded under emotive-factives
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4568928 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anita Cremers (0000-0002-7435-6515, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, corresponding author), Emmanuel Chemla (0000-0002-8423-5880, Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 223-261 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Natural Language Semantics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0925-854X • E-ISSN: 1572-865X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11050-017-9135-x |
| OpenAlex | W2602549712 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 28 |
Emotive-factive predicates, such as surprise or be happy, are a source of empirical and theoretical puzzles in the literature on embedded questions. Although they embed wh-questions, they seem not to embed whether-questions. They have complex interactions with negative polarity items such as any or even, and they have been argued to preferentially give rise to weakly exhaustive readings with embedded questions (in contrasts with most other verbs, which have been argued to give rise to strongly exhaustive readings). We offer an empirical overview of the situation in three experiments collecting acceptability judgments, monotonicity judgments, and truth-value judgments. The results straightforwardly confirm the special selectional properties of emotive-factive predicates. More interestingly, they reveal the existence of strongly exhaustive readings for surprise. The results also suggest that the special properties of emotive-factives cannot be solely explained by their monotonicity profiles, because they were not found to differ from the profiles of other responsive predicates
Cognitive psychology · Emotive · Epistemology · Linguistics · Metaphysics · Monotonic function · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of mind · Surprise · Truth value · Computer Science · Deception detection and forensic psychology · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
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| Citations per year | 1,22 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |