?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Epistemic+Containment+and+the+Encoding+of+Scope&rft.creator=Constantinou%2C+H&rft.creator=Van+de+Koot%2C+H&rft.description=This+paper+is+concerned+with+the+phenomenon+of+epistemic+containment+(von+Fintel+and+Iatridou+2003).+We+discuss+epistemic+containment+with+modal+auxiliaries%2C+model+adverbs+and+modal+raising+predicates+and+argue+that+the+full+data+pattern+provides+strong+support+for+a+syntactic+encoding+of+scope+that+relies+on+the+projection+of+scope+indices+(in+the+spirit+of+a+proposal+first+made+in+Williams+1994)+combined+with+a+particular+condition+on+scope+shift+(the+CSS%3B+Neeleman+and+van+de+Koot+2012).+The+CSS-based+theory+of+scope+predicts+an+asymmetry+between+overt+and+covert+scope-taking+that+we+show+is+also+present+in+the+epistemic+containment+data.+In+particular%2C+covert+scope+extension+exhibits+restrictions+not+present+with+its+overt+counterpart.+Such+an+asymmetry+seems+unexpected+on+a+QR-based+alternative.+The+CSS-based+account+of+epistemic+containment+correctly+predicts+a+further+scope+freezing+effects+with+epistemic+modals+that+we+believe+have+not+been+previously+reported+in+the+literature%2C+as+well+as+the+existence+of+structures+in+which+an+epistemic+category+occurs+in+the+c-command+domain+of+a+deontic+category.&rft.publisher=Graduate+Linguistics+Student+Association+(GSLA)&rft.contributor=Bui%2C+T&rft.contributor=%C3%96zyildiz%2C+D&rft.date=2015&rft.type=Proceedings+paper&rft.publisher=Annual+Meeting+of+the+North+East+Linguistics+Society&rft.language=eng&rft.source=+++++In%3A+Bui%2C+T+and+%C3%96zyildiz%2C+D%2C+(eds.)+Proceedings+of+the+Forty-Fifth+Annual+Meeting+of+the+North+East+Linguistic+Society.++(pp.+pp.+151-164).++Graduate+Linguistics+Student+Association+(GSLA)%3A+Amherst%2C+Massachusetts%2C+USA.+(2015)+++++&rft.format=text&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1471926%2F1%2FConstantinou%2520%2526%2520Van%2520de%2520Koot_Epistemic%2520Containment%2520and%2520the%2520Encoding%2520of%2520Scope.pdf&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fdiscovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk%2Fid%2Feprint%2F1471926%2F&rft.rights=open