Assertion and factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on Embedded V2 in Scandinavian

Kajsa Djärv; Caroline Heycock; Hannah Rohde

doi:10.5281/zenodo.1117696

Assertion and factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on Embedded V2 in Scandinavian

Kajsa Djärv, Caroline Heycock, Hannah Rohde

School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences

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Since Hooper & Thompson (1973), many researchers have pursued the insight that V2 is licensed by assertion. H&T categorise predicates depending on whether their complement can be asserted: e.g. communication verbs (say) permit the assertion of their complement, in contrast to factives (be happy). Simons (2007) proposes distinguishing between embedded propositions that do or do not constitute the Main Point of Utterance (MPU)—a sharpening of the notion of assertion: in question/response-sequences, the proposition answering the question is the MPU. Given this definition/diagnostic for assertion, factives can, given the appropriate discourse context, embed MPU and thus should allow embedded V2 (EV2). This paper presents two experiments testing whether factives can embed MPU and whether MPU licenses EV2 in Swedish. The results support both Simons’ contention that factives can embed MPU, while providing new evidence that MPU does not correlate with EV2.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Order and Structure in Syntax I
Subtitle of host publication	Word Order and Syntactic Structure
Editors	Laura Bailey, Michelle Sheehan
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Language Science Press
Chapter	1
Pages	3-28
Number of pages	26
Volume	1
ISBN (Electronic)	9783961100262
ISBN (Print)	9783961100279
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1117696
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Name	Open Generative Syntax
Publisher	Language Science Press

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syntax
verb second
V2
Swedish

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Assertion and factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on Embedded V2 in Scandinavian. / Djärv, Kajsa; Heycock, Caroline ; Rohde, Hannah.
Order and Structure in Syntax I: Word Order and Syntactic Structure. ed. / Laura Bailey; Michelle Sheehan. Vol. 1 Berlin: Language Science Press, 2018. p. 3-28 (Open Generative Syntax).

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