Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives  

Oleh:

Rothschild, Daniel ; Klinedinst, Nathan

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Semantics & Pragmatics (Fulltext) vol. 4 (2011), page 1-23.
Topik: questions; exhaustivity; implicature; focus; type-shifting
Fulltext: Exhaustivity in questions with non-factives.pdf (227.21KB)

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This paper is concerned with the conditions under which a person can be said to have told someone or predicted (the answer to a question like) who sang. It is standardly claimed that while (i) the true answer must be completely specified, it is not necessary that (ii) it be specified as being the complete answer. Here the non-factive verbs tell and predict are said to differ from the factive verb know, which typically does impose the strong exhaustivity requirement in (ii). We argue for an intermediate reading of tell and predict that requires more than (i) but less than (ii). To account for this reading we claim that the exhaustivity requirement (ii) imposed by know is due to an operator than can apply non-locally. Applying the operator above a non-factive verb derives the intermediate reading, whereas doing so is vacuous in the case of factives. Thus, we derive the intermediate reading, and differences in the exhaustivity requirements imposed by factives and non-factives, without lexical stipulation.

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