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ELLERHUR and other Yes/No-question operator candidates in Swedish

Petersson, David LU and Josefsson, Gunlög LU (2010) In Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax 86.
Abstract
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 operators in Swedish.

We also discuss eller hur that combines with a that-clause, a configuration that yields a sentence that in most cases is construed as an ironic statement. We argue that this instance of eller hur is not a question operator, but what we term a non-verbal matrix, and furthermore that... (More)
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 operators in Swedish.

We also discuss eller hur that combines with a that-clause, a configuration that yields a sentence that in most cases is construed as an ironic statement. We argue that this instance of eller hur is not a question operator, but what we term a non-verbal matrix, and furthermore that eller hur, followed by a that-clause, patterns with other non-verbal matrices with a similar meaning, such as visst „sure‟ and säkert „sure‟. (Less)
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question tag, sentence type operator, tag question, Yes/No-operator
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Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
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20 pages
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Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
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1100-097X
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English
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  abstract     = {{Our point of departure is a new use of the question tag eller hur (or how) „isn‟t it?‟ in Swedish:<br/><br>
(i) Eller hur ska vi åka till Italien i sommar?<br/><br>
or how shall we go to Italy in summer<br/><br>
„We will go to Italy this summer,. won‟t we?‟<br/><br>
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 operators in Swedish.<br/><br>
We also discuss eller hur that combines with a that-clause, a configuration that yields a sentence that in most cases is construed as an ironic statement. We argue that this instance of eller hur is not a question operator, but what we term a non-verbal matrix, and furthermore that eller hur, followed by a that-clause, patterns with other non-verbal matrices with a similar meaning, such as visst „sure‟ and säkert „sure‟.}},
  author       = {{Petersson, David and Josefsson, Gunlög}},
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  keywords     = {{question tag; sentence type operator; tag question; Yes/No-operator}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Working Paper}},
  publisher    = {{Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University}},
  series       = {{Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax}},
  title        = {{ELLERHUR and other Yes/No-question operator candidates in Swedish}},
  url          = {{http://project.sol.lu.se/grimm/working-papers-in-scandinavian-syntax/wpss-86/}},
  volume       = {{86}},
  year         = {{2010}},
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