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Record W7164841191 · doi:10.3765/yzkpcj50

The presuppositions of 'forget'

2025· article· W7164841191 on OpenAlexaff
Will Williams

Bibliographic record

VenueProceedings from Semantics and Linguistic Theory · 2025
Typearticle
Language
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicSyntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresuppositionCovertVerbArgument (complex analysis)ModalOperator (biology)Complement (music)Modal operator

Abstract

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The propositional attitude verb forget has received relatively little attention in the formal linguistics literature, though its properties present interesting problems for formal semantics. White (2014) argues that a uniform account of forget as a factive verb is possible. On this view, forget presupposes the truth of its clausal argument (See also Kiparsky & Kiparsky (1970)). But in order to do so, he claims that a covert modal operator is obligatorily present in non-finite complements of forget, deriving modalized factive presuppositions. In this paper, I present data showing that the distribution of this covert modal operator is even more restricted. I argue that modalization of the complement is separate from the clause-type, and that it is instead the pre-existence presupposition (Bondarenko 2020), that is part of forget’s meaning, that is responsible for the distribution of this covert operator.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.011
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.005
Threshold uncertainty score0.017

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.011
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0020.010
Scholarly communication0.0030.010
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0050.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.233
Teacher spread0.223 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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