Question agnosticism and change of state

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Question agnosticism and change of state
AaronStevenWhite1 2 KyleRawlins1
SinnundBedeutung21
UniversityofEdinburgh
4th September,2016
Johns Hopkins University
1DepartmentofCognitiveScience
2CenterforLanguageandSpeechProcessing
2ScienceofLearningInstitute
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Slides available at aswhite.net
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Introduction
1. ...declarative clauses?
2. ...interrogative clauses?
(1) Jo didn’t believe {that, *whether} Bo was smart.
(2) Jo didn’t wonder {*that, whether} Bo was smart.
(3) Jo didn’t know {that, whether} Bo was smart.
Challenging to explain predicates like know
Karttunen1977a,Groenendijk&
Stokhof1984,Heim1994,Ginzburg1995,Lahiri2002,Egré2008,Spector&Egré2015,George2011,Uegaki2015
A distributional puzzle
Question
Which lexical semantic properties license embedded...
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2. ...interrogative clauses?
(2) Jo didn’t wonder {*that, whether} Bo was smart.
(3) Jo didn’t know {that, whether} Bo was smart.
Challenging to explain predicates like know
Karttunen1977a,Groenendijk&
Stokhof1984,Heim1994,Ginzburg1995,Lahiri2002,Egré2008,Spector&Egré2015,George2011,Uegaki2015
A distributional puzzle
Question
Which lexical semantic properties license embedded...
1. ...declarative clauses?
(1) Jo didn’t believe {that, *whether} Bo was smart.
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(3) Jo didn’t know {that, whether} Bo was smart.
Challenging to explain predicates like know
Karttunen1977a,Groenendijk&
Stokhof1984,Heim1994,Ginzburg1995,Lahiri2002,Egré2008,Spector&Egré2015,George2011,Uegaki2015
A distributional puzzle
Question
Which lexical semantic properties license embedded...
1. ...declarative clauses?
2. ...interrogative clauses?
(1) Jo didn’t believe {that, *whether} Bo was smart.
(2) Jo didn’t wonder {*that, whether} Bo was smart.
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A distributional puzzle
Question
Which lexical semantic properties license embedded...
1. ...declarative clauses?
2. ...interrogative clauses?
(1) Jo didn’t believe {that, *whether} Bo was smart.
(2) Jo didn’t wonder {*that, whether} Bo was smart.
(3) Jo didn’t know {that, whether} Bo was smart.
Challenging to explain predicates like know
Karttunen1977a,Groenendijk&
Stokhof1984,Heim1994,Ginzburg1995,Lahiri2002,Egré2008,Spector&Egré2015,George2011,Uegaki2015
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Q(uestion)-rejecting
only declaratives (e.g., believe)
Terminology
Q(uestion)-agnosticLahiri’s(2002)responsives
declaratives and interrogatives (e.g., know)
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Terminology
Q(uestion)-agnosticLahiri’s(2002)responsives
declaratives and interrogatives (e.g., know)
Q(uestion)-rejecting
only declaratives (e.g., believe)
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Decide is part of a nontrivial class of CoS Q-agnostics not
captured by current theories of Q-agnosticism
(5) decide, judge, estimate, determine, assess, conclude,
resolve, choose, assess, evaluate, appraise, rate, select,
infer, diagnose, opt, elect
This talk
Minimalpair
Change-of-state (CoS) decide v. stative intend
(4) a. Jo decided (whether) to go out.
b. Jo intended (*whether) to go out.
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