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In search of the force of dependent verb second

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2010

Anna-Lena Wiklund
Anna-Lena Wiklund*
Affiliation:
Centre for Languages and Literature/NORMS, Lund University, Box 201, 221 00 Lund, Sweden. [email protected]
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Abstract

This short communication is a brief extension of recent work on verb second (V2) in Scandinavian declarative clauses and a contribution to research on the relation between V2 and illocutionary force. It is argued that Swedish data present a problem for the hypothesis that a bi-conditional relation holds between the illocutionary force of an assertion and V2 word order. The relevant force, to the extent that we can identify it, appears to be available also in the absence of V2 word order. It is tentatively suggested that V2 encodes evidentiality.

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assertionevidentialityillocutionary forceSwedishV2
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Short Communications
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Nordic Journal of Linguistics , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , May 2010 , pp. 81 - 91
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Copyright © Nordic Association of Linguistics 2010

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