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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
This paper is a contribution to the never settled debate on reference, negation and presupposition of existence in the linguistic/philosophical literature. Based on Swedish and English data, the discussion is an attempt to present a unified account of the opposing views put forward in the works of Aristotle, Frege (1892), Russell (1905) and Strawson (1950). The starting point is the observed asymm
Our point of departure is a new use of the question tag eller hur (or how) „isn‟t it?‟ in Swedish: (i) Eller hur ska vi åka till Italien i sommar? or how shall we go to Italy in summer „We will go to Italy this summer,. won‟t we?‟ We argue that eller hur used in this way is an overt Yes/No-question operator, and that it patterns with visst and nog, which we propose are two other Yes/No-question op
The topic of my article is Object Shift and optionality, mainly from a Swedish viewpoint. I present the result of a survey, which shows that informant‟s intuitions concerning the wellformedness of shifted and non-shifted sentences vary to a large degree. For sentences with monotransitive verbs and monosyllabic object pronouns, such as den (it.common) ‟it‟, the shifted alternative is preferred, whe
Negation on the Move: The Pragmatics of Negative Preposing in Icelandic * Elena Callegari Ásgrímur Angantýsson University of Iceland Abstract This paper explores the syntactic and pragmatic constraints on Negative Preposing (NP) in Ice- landic, with a focus on the preposing of negation in finite clauses with an overt subject. While negation in Icelandic typically appears post-verbally, we show tha
Marit Julien: Publikationer 1996 — 2004 Monografier: 1996 Syntactic word formation in Northern Sámi. Novus, Oslo. ISBN 82-7099-260-7. 2002 Syntactic heads and word formation: a study of verbal inflection. Oxford Uni- versity Press, New York. ISBN 0-19-514951-3 (mjukband), 0-19-514950-5 (hårdband). Artiklar: 1996 “An incorporation analysis of causatives.” Proceedings of ESCOL 13, Cornell University
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Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson Works 2010– Sigurðsson, H. Á. 2017. Topicality in Icelandic: Null arguments and Narrative Inversion. To appear in Verner Egerland, Valéria Molnár & Susanne Winkler: Architecture of Topic. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. Sigurðsson, H. Á. 2017. Who are we – and who is I? About Person and SELF. In Order and structure in syntax II: Subjecthood and Argume
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