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  • Kyle Rawlins Johns Hopkins University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/salt.v23i0.2688

Keywords:

Semantics, pragmatics, questions, attitudes, clause embedding

Abstract

I provide a compositional account of about-PPs in combination with attitude predicates, content nouns, and as a predicate. The account requires that attitude predicates are properties of content-bearing eventualities, rather than relations that take propositions (or other clause denotations) as arguments. I argue further that the relevant notion of 'content' must be extremely general, allowing for question-like, proposition-like, and hybrid meanings.

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2013-08-24

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Proceedings of SALT 23

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