The current dissertation focuses on two interpretational properties of APPOSITIVE
CONSTRUCTIONS:(i) their (often) NOT-AT-ISSUE status, ie the fact that they can be …

Propositional attitude verbs, such as think and want, have long held interest for both
theoretical linguists and language acquisitionists because their syntactic, semantic, and …

Sentences with slifting parentheticals (such as The dean greeted the secretary, Jill said;
Ross, in: Gross, Schützenberger (eds) The formal analysis of natural language, Mouton, The …

This paper analyzes English “wh-slifting” sentences (for example, How old is she do you
think). We argue that these sentences are not scope-marking constructions nor are they …

This paper analyzes how the verb hope acquires meaning in early childhood. It begins by
critiquing the assumption that mental verbs derive meaning from corresponding referents …

El presente trabajo analiza el desarrollo de la atenuación en distintos usos de creo en la
conversación coloquial. Este verbo de actitud proposicional, considerado el más polisémico …

Attitude verbs like think and want describe mental states (belief and desire) that lack reliable
physical correlates that could help children learn their meanings. Nevertheless, children …

We give an account of the selectional behavior of cognitive change-of-state verbs, such as
decide, that attempts to reduce this behavior to their change-of-state event structure. In …

This thesis discusses some different types of wh-questions available in the dialect of Syrian
Arabic. It demonstrates that this variety of Arabic has a very rich and varied system of wh …

In this paper I investigate occurrences of epistemic modals such as must and might
embedded under three classes of attitude verbs:(i) doxastic and doxastic-like verbs like …