Conjunction Distribution: Empirical Data #
Theory-neutral empirical judgments about conjunction distribution with attitude verbs.
The empirical generalization: some attitude verbs distribute over conjunction in their complement, and some do not.
"John believes p and q" ↔ "John believes p and John believes q" ✓ "John is surprised that p and q" ↛ "John is surprised that p..." ✗
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- Phenomena.Complementation.Attitudes.ConjunctionDistribution.instBEqConjDistDatum.beq x✝¹ x✝ = false
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Empirical data from @cite{bondarenko-elliott-2026} §1. Upward-monotone attitudes distribute; non-monotone ones do not.
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Count of distributing verbs in the dataset.
Count of non-distributing verbs in the dataset.