TY - JOUR AU - Mayr, Clemens PY - 2019/05/14 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Predicting polar question embedding JF - Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung JA - SuB VL - 21 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de/sub/index.php/sub/article/view/172 SP - 863-880 AB - <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> ER -