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Classic analyses of propositional attitude reports (building on Hintikka 1969) assume that attitude verbs compose with a clausal argument that denotes a proposition. I use original fieldwork data to demonstrate that Amahuaca (Panoan; Peru) attitude reports involve high adjunct switch-reference clauses rather than clausal complements to an attitude verb. This structure raises issues for the traditionally assumed compositional semantics of attitude reports. I argue that the approaches of Kratzer (2006) and Moulton (2015), which do not assume that attitude verbs compose directly with propositional internal arguments, can be extended to account for the Amahuaca data. Amahuaca therefore provides novel empirical support for this approach to the semantics of attitude reports.
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