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In this overview, we look at embedded clauses that report somebody’s attitude or speech. Semantic content in the embedded clause can in some such cases be interpreted from either of two perspectives: that of the speaker or that of the attitude holder/speaker being reported on. Other classes of content do not exhibit this ambiguity. Our overview shows which factors determine the interpretation of embedded linguistic and non-linguistic material and develop a partial explanation.
This work benefited from the comments of the audience at the COST 2102 meeting in Vietri sul Mare. We are also grateful to John Tammena for correction our English. Finally, we would like to acknowledge financial support from the following sources: Project CHLaSC in the NEST initiative of the European Union’s Commission for Research and the Emmy-Noether research group ‘Interpretation of Quantifiers’ funded by the German research foundation DFG.
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Sauerland, U., Schenner, M. (2009). Content in Embedded Sentences. In: Esposito, A., Hussain, A., Marinaro, M., Martone, R. (eds) Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5398. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00525-1_19
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