Intensional verbs and their intentional objects

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• 作者：Friederike Moltmann
• 关键词：Transitive intensional verbs ; Intensional quantifiers ; Modality ; Situation ; Intensionality
• 刊名：Natural Language Semantics
• 出版年：2008
• 出版时间：September, 2008
• 年：2008
• 卷：16
• 期：3
• 页码：239-270
• 全文大小：336.3 KB

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The complement of transitive intensional verbs, like any nonreferential complement, can be replaced by a R16;special quantifierR17; or R16;special pronounR17; such as something, the same thing, or what. In previous work on predicative complements and that-clauses I argued that special quantifiers and pronouns introduce entities that would not have occurred in the semantic structure of the sentence without the special quantifier, entities that one would refer to with the corresponding nominalization. Thus something in John thinks something or the same thing in John thinks the same thing as Mary ranges not over propositions, but rather over entities of the sort R16;JohnR17;s thought that SR17; or R16;the thought that SR17;, without those entities acting as arguments of the think-relation. Despite initial apparent lack of evidence for this view for transitive verbs like need, a closer inspection of a greater range of data gives in fact further support for the R16;Nominalization TheoryR17; of special quantifiers, once R16;nominalizationR17; is viewed in a suitably extended and flexible way.