@article{Mayr_2019, title={Predicting polar question embedding}, volume={21}, url={https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/172}, abstractNote={<p>This paper shows that it is fully predictable whether a polar interrogative clause can appear under a declarative embedding predicate. The idea in a nutshell is as follows: whenever a predicate appears to not embed polar interrogatives, the interpretative component independently derives a trivial meaning for the sentence. Such trivial meanings manifest themselves in unacceptability. A crucial property of this proposal is that interrogative embedding is polaritysensitive, which is shown to be empirically supported. As a consequence, one must not stipulate in the lexical entry of a given predicate whether or not it embeds polar interrogative clauses.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung}, author={Mayr, Clemens}, year={2019}, month={May}, pages={863–880} }