Aaron Steven White
List of John Benjamins publications for which Aaron Steven White plays a role.
Articles
2019 Lexically triggered veridicality inferences Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 115–148 | Chapter
2018 Chapter 9. The labeling problem in syntactic bootstrapping: Main clause syntax in the acquisition of propositional attitude verbs Semantics in Language Acquisition, Syrett, Kristen and Sudha Arunachalam (eds.), pp. 197–220 | Chapter
In English, the distinction between belief verbs, such as think, and desire verbs, such as want, is tracked by tense found in the subordinate clauses of those verbs. This suggests that subordinate clause tense might be a useful cue for learning the meanings of these verbs via syntactic… read more