Emotive-factive predicates, such as surprise or be happy, are a source of empirical and theoretical puzzles in the literature on embedded questions. Although they embed wh-questions, they seem not to embed whether-questions. They have complex interactions with negative polarity items such as any or even, and they have been argued to preferentially give rise to weakly exhaustive readings with embedded questions (in contrasts with most other verbs, which have been argued to give rise to strongly exhaustive readings). We offer an empirical overview of the situation in three experiments collecting acceptability judgments, monotonicity judgments, and truth-value judgments. The results straightforwardly confirm the special selectional properties of emotive-factive predicates. More interestingly, they reveal the existence of strongly exhaustive readings for surprise. The results also suggest that the special properties of emotive-factives cannot be solely explained by their monotonicity profiles, because they were not found to differ from the profiles of other responsive predicates.

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情绪-情感下嵌入的问题的可接受性和可能阅读的实验

积极的谓语（例如惊喜或快乐）是文献中有关嵌入式问题的经验和理论难题的来源。虽然他们嵌入WH -questions，他们似乎不嵌入是否-questions。它们与负极性项目（例如任何或什至什至有复杂的相互作用），并且他们被认为优先产生带有穷举问题的弱穷尽性读物（与大多数其他动词形成强烈反面穷人的读物相反）。我们通过收集可接受性判断，单调性判断和真值判断的三个实验对这种情况进行了经验总结。结果直接证实了情绪主动谓词的特殊选择特性。更有趣的是，它们揭示了非常详尽的读数的存在，令人吃惊。结果还表明，情感成分的特殊性质不能仅由其单调性特征来解释，因为未发现它们与其他响应谓词的特征不同。