This thesis asks: what is the division of labour between the syntax and the semantics? The
empirical focus is on the phenomenon of clausal embedding, whereby the grammar …

This paper proposes a semantics for declarative and interrogative complements and for so-
called responsive verbs, like know and forget, which embed both kinds of complements …

This survey article discusses two basic issues that semantic theories of questions face. The
first is how to conceptualise and formally represent the semantic content of questions. This …

It is a long-standing puzzle why predicates like believe embed declarative but not
interrogative complements (eg, Bill believes that/* whether Mary left) and why predicates like …

Inquisitive semantics enriches the standard truth-conditional notion of meaning, in order to
facilitate an integrated semantic analysis of statements and questions. Taking this richer …

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 …

Why do predicates like know embed both declarative and interrogative clauses, whereas
closely related ones like believe only embed the former? The standard approach following …

Theories of clause selection that aim to explain the distribution of interrogative and
declarative complement clauses often take as a starting point that predicates like think …

The complementation pattern of certain question‐embedding predicates, such as know and
agree, presents a puzzle for the compositional semantics of clausal complementation, as the …

Given the assumption that selection is a strictly local relationship between a head and its
complement, we expect the ability of a head to take a particular argument to be insensitive to …