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- Engdahl, Elisabet, 1949, et al.
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Presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish: Roles and positions
- 2018
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 101, s. 1-28
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this article we report on a systematic comparison of presentational sentences in Icelandic and Swedish, looking in particular at possible thematic roles of the pivot and how they correlate with positional options. Despite some well-known differences between the languages (only Icelandic allows ‘high’ IP-pivots and pivots with transitive verbs), it turns out that the restrictions on VP-pivots are similar, both in terms of roles and positions. VP-pivots have to be Themes and may co-occur with other DPs, but only if the pivot is the last DP argument. We show how these restrictions to some extent reflect the argument structure proposed in Platzack (2010). In addition we show that we need to distinguish presentational sentences among the different Transitive Expletive Constructions discussed in Håkansson (2017).
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- Heinat, Fredrik, et al.
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Scandinavian relative clause extractions - Apparent restrictions
- 2015
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 94, s. 36-50
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This brief article investigates the restrictions on Mainland Scandinavian relative clause extraction that have figured in the literature on island constraints. The conclusion is that none of these restrictions can be regarded as constraints on relative clause extraction per se and therefore that the peripheral status standardly assigned to Mainland Scandinavian relative clause extraction cannot be maintained.
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- Brandtler, Johan
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Why we should ever bother about wh-questions: On NPI-licensing properties of wh-questions in Swedish
- 2008
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 81, s. 83-121
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper is an attempt to solve the somewhat elusive polarity item licensing properties of wh-questions in Swedish. As has been observed by Klima (1964) for English, NPIs are gener¬ally not compatible with genuinely information seeking wh-questions, but tend to induce rhe¬torical interpretations. Distin-guishing between three types of wh-questions and the kind of information they request, I will systematically review the syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of each wh-type. Based on that overview, I argue that NPI-licensing in wh-ques¬tions is dependent on the relation between the implication of exis-tence associated with the wh-word and the presupposition induced by the expressed proposition. According to my analysis, wh-words should not be regarded as NPI-licensing operators. Being place-holders, wh-words inherit whatever properties are associated with the item they replace. The licensing property of the wh-word is thus dependent on the licensing property of the referent. Thus, only wh-words referring to downward entailing expressions will license NPIs in their scope (e.g. when pointing to an empty set). Such wh-questions tend to be interpreted rhetorically.
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- Engdahl, Elisabet, 1949, et al.
(författare)
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Preposed object pronouns in mainland Scandinavian
- 2014
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 92, s. 1-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- We report on a study of preposed object pronouns using the Scandinavian Dialect Corpus. In other Germanic languages, e.g. Dutch and German, preposing of unstressed object pronouns is restricted, compared with subject pronouns. In Danish, Norwegian and Swedish, we find several examples of preposed pronouns, ranging from completely unstressed to emphatically stressed pronouns. We have investigated the type of relation between the anaphoric pronoun and its antecedent and found that the most common pattern is rheme-topic chaining followed by topic-topic chaining and left dislocation with preposing. The phonetic realization of the pronouns, however, is not correlated with the type of anaphoric chain; rather it re-flects the type of the antecedent (VP, clause or entity) and whether or not the speaker has a contrast in mind. Previous studies have found a subject-object asymmetry with respect to clitic pronouns. Since we were not able to search for Swedish clitic pronouns in the corpus, we gathered some data on Swedish clitics and r-pronouns using a questionnaire. The results from the questionnaire confirm that object clitics resist preposing, whereas r-pronouns can be preposed. Given the results from the corpus study, we conclude that we need to distinguish clitics, unstressed pronouns, pronouns with word stress and emphatically stressed pronouns in order to account for the full range of variation.
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- Garbacz, Piotr
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Verb movement and negation in Övdalian
- 2006
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 78, s. 190-1173
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Heinat, Fredrik
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Adjectives and clausal complementation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Working papers in Scandinavian syntax. - 1100-097X. ; :89, s. 37-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In this paper I show that Swedish has a type of relative clause that doesn’t modifynominal expressions, contrary tomost descriptions/definitions of relative clauses.Instead this type of relative clause modifies evaluative predicates. The relativeclause has similarities to both control clauses and attributive relative clauses.I point out some issues that theoretical accounts of these relative clauses musttake into consideration, and also how current generative analyses fail to meetthese considerations. A promising route in such a generative framework seemsto be one where the head of the relative clause and the relative clause itself areindependently merged in the structure; the head as subject in the matrix clauseand the relative clause as an adjunct/complement to the predicate it modifies.What makes this relative clause different from NP modifying relative clauses isthe relation between the gap and the head.
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- heinat, fredrik
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Adjectives and clausal complementation
- 2012
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 89, s. 37-67
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Heinat, Fredrik
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Finiteness in Swedish
- 2012
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; :90, s. 81-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This paper investigates tenseless finite clauses in Swedish. In certain contexts thefinite perfect auxiliary, ha ‘have’, is optional. These contexts are finite non-V2clauses and V2 clauses in which the V2 position is filled by a modal adverb, forexample kanske ‘maybe’. The analysis of these tenseless clauses is presented inthe constraint based lexicalist theory, lexical functional grammar. The analysisbuilds on, and develops, the one presented by Sells (2007).
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- Heinat, Fredrik
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Finiteness in Swedish
- 2012
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Ingår i: Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax. - 1100-097X. ; 90, s. 81-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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