Observations on embedding verbs, evidentiality, and presupposition

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Judge dependence, epistemic modals, and predicates of personal taste (2007, background): “Simons (2005) observes (also citing Urmson 1952; Hooper 1975 and others) that assertions of the form ‘‘x thinks that p’’ can be used in such a way that the ‘‘main point’’ of the utterance is p, and not the entire attitude report.”
Linguistic cues facilitate children’s understanding of belief-reporting sentences (2021, background): “This feature might encourage children to take the complement clause as the main point of a belief-reporting sentence if the context does not emphasize the relevance of belief (see also Simons, 2007).”
Predicting the presuppositions of soft triggers (2011, background): “5.2 Parenthetical uses of verbs Simons (2007) (partly following Hooper 1975) observes that certain clause embedding verbs such as hear, see, believe, discover, know, etc. have semantically parenthetical uses.”
Must . . . stay . . . strong! (2010, background): “After some rounds where Mordecai gives Pascal hints about the solution, Pascal asks11 (Simons 2006).”
Focus and uninformativity in Yucatec Maya questions (2012, background): “In terms of semantics, a number of recent works have emphasized that even wellstudied presuppositions in English can be sensitive to pragmatic factors such as the Question Under Discussion (e.g. Simons 2007, Simons et al. 2011).”