Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Polarity Item Licensing.
Title:
Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax, Semantics, and Pragmatics of Polarity Item Licensing.
Author:
Brandtler, Johan.
ISBN:
9789027274908
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Series:
Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today
Contents:
The Evaluability Hypothesis -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1.1. Aim of the present work -- 1.2. Road map -- Negation and polarity -- 2.1. Defining polarity items -- 2.1.1. Polarity items: Weak and strong -- 2.1.2. Swedish polarity items -- 2.2. Issues in the study of polarity items -- 2.2.1. The licensing problem -- 2.2.2. The Downward Entailment Hypothesis -- 2.3. Perspective of current work -- A syntactic categorization of Swedish -- 3.1. A minimalist view on clause structure -- 3.1.1. The C-domain: Split or non-split? -- 3.2. Classifying Swedish clause structure -- 3.2.1. Swedish main clauses -- 3.2.2. Swedish subordinate clauses -- 3.3. The structural classification -- The syntax of NPI-licensing in Swedish -- 4.1. Configuration (i) -- 4.1.1. Declarative main clauses -- 4.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses -- 4.1.3. Wh-questions -- 4.1.4. Summary -- 4.2. Configuration (ii) -- 4.2.1. Att-clauses -- 4.2.2. Exclamatives -- 4.2.3. Relative clauses -- 4.2.4. Summary -- 4.3. Configuration (iii) and (iv) -- 4.3.1. Yes/no-questions -- 4.3.2. Conditionals -- 4.3.3. Imperatives -- 4.3.4. Summary -- 4.4. A new classification -- The Evaluability Hypothesis -- 5.1. Veridicality, realis and irrealis -- 5.1.1. Realis and irrealis -- 5.1.2. Veridicality -- 5.2. Evaluability -- 5.3. Summary -- Applying the Evaluability Hypothesis -- 6.1. Type 1-clauses -- 6.1.1. Declaratives -- 6.1.2. Embedded V2-clauses -- 6.1.3. Wh-questions -- 6.1.4. Exclamatives -- 6.1.5. Relative clauses -- 6.1.6. Summary -- 6.2. Type 2-clauses -- 6.2.1. Yes/no-questions -- 6.2.2. Conditionals -- 6.2.3. Summary -- 6.3. Evaluability and edge features -- 6.3.1. The edge-feature in C -- 6.3.2. A syntactic reflex -- 6.3.3. Why the edge-feature in C? -- 6.4. Summary -- Evaluability and polarity I.
7.1. The general idea -- 7.1.1. Open to evaluation, closed to NPIs -- 7.1.2. Closed to evaluation, open to NPIs -- 7.2. Progovac (1994): A binding approach -- 7.2.1. An operator in C -- 7.2.2. Arguments against the operator in C -- 7.2.3. Summary -- 7.3. Proposal: No operator, no binding -- 7.4. Summary -- Evaluability and polarity II -- 8.1. Veridicality revisited -- 8.1.1. Giannakidou (1998): The Veridicality Hypothesis -- 8.1.2. Veridicality and monotonicity -- 8.2. Evaluability vs. veridicality -- 8.2.1. Empirical issues -- 8.2.2. Theoretical issues -- 8.3. Evaluability and monotonicity -- 8.4. Evaluability as polarity sensitivity -- Long-distance NPI-licensing -- 9.1. Licensing by superordinate negation -- 9.1.1. Factive predicates -- 9.1.2. Volitional and non-assertive predicates -- 9.1.3. Assertive and perception predicates -- 9.1.4. Summary -- 9.2. Predicate licensing -- 9.2.1. Non-assertive predicates -- 9.2.2. Factive predicates -- 9.2.3. Summary -- 9.3. Previous accounts -- 9.3.1. Progovac (1994) -- 9.3.2. Giannakidou and Quer (1997) -- 9.3.3. Summary -- 9.4. Summarizing discussion -- Polarity items in wh-questions -- 10.1. Empirical and theoretical issues -- 10.2. Three kinds of wh-questions -- 10.2.1. Argument wh-questions -- 10.2.2. Framing wh-questions -- 10.2.3. Propositional wh-questions -- 10.2.4. Summary -- 10.3. NPI-hosting wh-questions -- 10.4. Summary -- Conclusion -- 11.1. Evaluability and polarity sensitivity -- 11.2. Evaluability and Swedish clause structure -- Bibliography -- Index.
Abstract:
Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of NPIs and PPIs in yes/no-questions and conditionals, long distance licensing by superordinate elements, and the occurrence of polarity items in wh-questions. It is argued that polarity sensitivity can be understood in terms of evaluability. Lacking any immediate predecessor in the literature, evaluability refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting an utterance as true in a communicative exchange. Intriguingly, the evaluable status of a clause is shown to have syntactic correlates in Swedish, mirrored in the configuration of the C-domain. This book is of interest to scholars studying the interplay between syntax, semantics and pragmatics, particularly those working on negation and polarity.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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