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It is argued, contra Beck and Rullmann (1999), and with Heim (1994), that the sources of strongly exhaustive interpretations and `de dicto' interpretations of wh-complements of veridical question-embedding verbs are one and the same. Beck and Rullmann's theory is shown to predict certain `de dicto' readings which do not exist, while a particular rendition of Heim's theory is shown to constrain the generation of `de dicto' readings in the correct way.
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Sharvit, Y. Emedded Questions and ‘De Dicto’ Readings. Natural Language Semantics 10, 97–123 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016573907314
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