Abstract
AbstractThere is a growing body of literature in the syntax and semantics of clausal complementation which advocates for the predicative view of clausal complementation, according to which clausal complements semantically act as a predicate modifying the object of an attitude (Kratzer, Handout from a talk honoring Anita Mittwoch on her 80th birthday at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2006; Moulton, Natural selection and the syntax of clausal complementation. Ph.D. Thesis, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 2009; Elliott, Elements of clausal embedding. Ph.D. Thesis, University College London, 2017). Under this view, for example, think denotes a relationship between a thinker and a content-bearing object (either of an individual type or an eventuality type), and the complement clause of think semantically functions as a modifier that specifies the content of the content-bearing object.
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