Factivity-Alternating Attitude Verbs in Azeri

Abstract

Factivity alternations received at least two kinds of explanations in the literature: there are approaches that attribute the two readings to two different LFs and approaches that derive the presence/absence of a factive inference by appealing to general pragmatic mechanisms. In this paper I investigate verbs displaying two different kinds of factivity alternations in Azeri and argue for the former view of how factivity alternations emerge.

Keywords

• factivity alternations
• Azeri
• attitude reports
• clausal embedding