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  1. 1. The Evaluability Hypothesis : The Syntax and Semantics of Polarity Item Licensing in Swedish

    Författare :Johan Brandtler; Svenska; []
    Nyckelord :HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; downward entailment; long-distance; wh-questions; edge-feature; Spec-CP; negation; NPIs; PPIs; veridicality; term logic;

    Sammanfattning : This dissertation is concerned with the empirical and theoretical aspects of polarity item licensing in Swedish. I argue that polarity items are semantically sensitive to evaluability, a concept that refers to the possibility of accepting or rejecting a clause as true in a communicative exchange. Clauses are either evaluable or non-evaluable. LÄS MER