Facts, intentions, questions: English 'come-to-know' predicates in deliberative environments
Pranav Anand, Natasha Korotkova
December 2024 

This paper explores a distributional interaction in English between (i) deliberative environments, e.g., 'intend'; (ii) ‘come-to-know’ verbs (CtKs): factive change-of-belief verbs, e.g., 'discover' and 'find out'; and (iii) complement selection. We show that deliberative environments permit CtKs only when they embed questions. We derive this constraint from a clash between two presuppositions of CtKs, their factivity and change-of-state requirements, that emerges due to the projection properties of deliberative environments. We show that when the factivity presupposition is either absent (as with non-factive change-of-belief predicates) or accommodated locally, CtKs in deliberative environments permit declarative complements.

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Reference:	lingbuzz/008735 (please use that when you cite this article)
Published in:	Proceedings of the 24th Amsterdam Colloquium
keywords:	attitudes, complement selection, factivity, intention reports, semantics
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