Mixed (Non)veridicality and mood choice in complement clauses: starting with emotive verbs
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Factive know selects the indicative, the mood of veridical sentences (Giannakidou 1998, 1999, 2009). If emotives are factive like know, why do they take the subjunctive? If both know and emotives are veridical, how can we explain the contrast between the two vis-à-vis the subjunctive? The usual way mood selection in complement clauses has been handled in the literature is by proposing a generalization about the decisive property that necessitates subjunctive or indicative. Simple generalizations have been proposed: for instance, that emotive verbs are veridical (as just mentioned, see also Marques 2004, 2010, Baunaz 2015), that they denote preference between two alternative propositions (Villalta 2008). Related notions have been used, e.g. epistemic commitment (Smirnova 2012), and contextual commitment (Portner and Rubinstein 2012)— to mention just some of the most recent approaches. Unfortunately, none of the approaches offers a satisfactory way to address the emotives, and this because the treatment is monolithic, i.e. the selecting predicate is veridical or nonveridical, or has or does not have
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