Justifying the purely referential nature of the interrogative complements of QE verbs, as opposed to that of the interrogative complements of factives. Vendler's introduction of fact s into semantic ontology. Factive predicates select for facts. Exclamative clauses as arguments of factives. Exclamative clauses denote facts.
Declarative clauses are ambiguous between propositions and facts.
Vendler provides interesting independent justification for introducing facts into the ontology. The account of factives and exclamatives in terms of facts is simple and general. The interpretation of Kim began the book . The Generative Lexicon . Agreement as diagnostic for which element is being coerced.