The Syntax of Assertion and Presupposition
| Autor: | Kajsa Djärv |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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050101 languages & linguistics
Grammar media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Assertion Topicalization Verb Proposition Syntax Presupposition language.human_language Linguistics German 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences language 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0305 other medical science Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Semantics and Linguistic Theory. 29:392 |
| ISSN: | 2163-5951 |
| DOI: | 10.3765/salt.v29i0.4626 |
| Popis: | This paper addresses the question of how assertion and presuppositionare reflected in the grammar. Since Kiparsky & Kiparsky (1970) and Hooper &Thompson (1973), it’s often been suggested that these notions provide the semanticpragmaticunderpinning for a range of complementation patterns, including thelicensing of so-called Main Clause Phenomena [MCP]. This paper presents a newlarge-scale experimental study, investigating the lexical and semantic-pragmaticlicensing conditions of four types of MCP (Verb Second [V2], topicalization, speechact adverbs, and scene setting adverbs) in English, Swedish, and German. Thecentral contribution of this paper is demonstrating what precise dimensions ofassertion and presupposition are reflected in the grammar: for embedded V2, whatmatters is the discourse status of the embedded proposition as new vs. Given (inthe sense of Schwarzschild 1999); a dimension which cross-cuts both factive andnon-factive verbs. The other MCP investigated show no sensitivity to either of thelexical or pragmatic factors investigated. We further show that Givenness is notreflected in a (null) DP-layer, contrary to previous claims. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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