@article{Trawiński2022, author = {Beata Trawiński}, title = {Negation raising and mood. A corpus-based study of Polish sądzić ‘think’ and wierzyć ‘believe’}, series = {Polonica}, volume = {41}, publisher = {Institute of the Polish Language}, address = {Krakow}, issn = {2545-045X}, doi = {10.17651/POLON.41.8}, url = {https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-113143}, pages = {111 -- 127}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The paper describes the distribution of two negation raising predicates in Polish: sądzić ‛think’ and wierzyć ‛believe’ in the National Corpus of Polish with a particular focus on their morphosyntax and the mood of their clausal complements. The aim was to examine whether there are any correlations between these two parameters, and to what extent negation raising with those verbs exhibits performative features (in terms of Prince, 1976). The results of the study support the performative approach to negation raising as per Prince (1976) only for cases with subjunctive complements. The corpus findings further imply that Polish negation raising predicates encode two different degrees of (un)certainty concerning the truth of the embedded proposition depending on the mood of their complements. Structures with indicative complements express weaker uncertainty than structures with subjunctive complements.}, language = {en} }