This paper describes a new resource, the CommitmentBank, developed for the empirical
investigation of the projection of finite clausal complements. A clausal complement is said to …

Properties of the content of the clausal complement have long been assumed to distinguish
factive predicates like know from nonfactive ones like think (Kiparsky & Kiparsky 1970, inter …

Attitude verbs, such as think, want, and know, describe internal mental states that leave few
cues as to their meanings in the physical world. Consequently, their acquisition requires …

The role of veridicality and factivity in clause selection Page 1 The role of veridicality and
factivity in clause selection Aaron Steven White 1 Kyle Rawlins 2 NELS 48 University of …

How is human social intelligence engaged in the course of ordinary conversation? Standard
models of conversation hold that language production and comprehension are guided by …

I identify a class of expressions called 'emotive markers,'exemplified by fortunately and alas,
which encode not-at-issue information about the speaker's emotive attitude towards the …

Factive mental states, such as knowing or being aware, can only link an agent to the truth; by
contrast, nonfactive states, such as believing or thinking, can link an agent to either truths or …

This dissertation focuses on what it means to think that or to think whether something is the
case. First, I show that the type of clause that think combines with makes a difference in the …

We investigate neural models' ability to capture lexicosyntactic inferences: inferences
triggered by the interaction of lexical and syntactic information. We take the task of event …

The dissertation is devoted to the formal mechanisms that govern the use of evidentials,
expressions of natural language that denote the source of information for the proposition …