ELLERHUR and other Yes/No-question operator candidates in Swedish
(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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- Petersson, David LU and Josefsson, Gunlög LU
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- 2010
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- keywords
- question tag, sentence type operator, tag question, Yes/No-operator
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- Working Papers in Scandinavian Syntax
- volume
- 86
- pages
- 20 pages
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- Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
- ISSN
- 1100-097X
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- English
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- yes
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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‟.}},
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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/}},
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