It is a long-standing puzzle why predicates like believe embed declarative but not interrogative complements (e.g., Bill believes that/*whether Mary left) and why predicates like wonder embed interrogative but not declarative complements (e.g., Bill wonders whether/*that Mary left). This paper shows how the selectional restrictions of a range of predicates (neg-raising predicates like believe, truth-evaluating predicates like be true, inquisitive predicates like wonder, and predicates of dependency like depend on) can be derived from semantic assumptions that can be independently motivated.

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挑剔的谓词：为什么相信不喜欢疑问补语和其他困惑

这是一个长期存在的难题，为什么谓词喜欢相信嵌入的声明，但没有疑问的补充（例如，比尔认为，/ *是否玛丽左）和为什么像谓词难怪嵌入疑问句，但不声明补充（例如，比尔奇迹是否/ *玛丽左）。本文展示了如何一个范围谓词的选择限制（NEG-提高谓词喜欢相信，真理评估谓词喜欢是真实的，好奇的谓词像奇迹，像依赖谓词取决于）可以从语义假设可以得出具有独立动机。