TY - JOUR TI - The Syntax of Assertion and Presupposition AU - Djärv, Kajsa T2 - Semantics and Linguistic Theory AB - This paper addresses the question of how assertion and presuppositionare reflected in the grammar. Since Kiparsky & Kiparsky (1970) and Hooper &Thompson (1973), it’s often been suggested that these notions provide the semanticpragmaticunderpinning for a range of complementation patterns, including thelicensing of so-called Main Clause Phenomena [MCP]. This paper presents a newlarge-scale experimental study, investigating the lexical and semantic-pragmaticlicensing conditions of four types of MCP (Verb Second [V2], topicalization, speechact adverbs, and scene setting adverbs) in English, Swedish, and German. Thecentral contribution of this paper is demonstrating what precise dimensions ofassertion and presupposition are reflected in the grammar: for embedded V2, whatmatters is the discourse status of the embedded proposition as new vs. Given (inthe sense of Schwarzschild 1999); a dimension which cross-cuts both factive andnon-factive verbs. The other MCP investigated show no sensitivity to either of thelexical or pragmatic factors investigated. We further show that Givenness is notreflected in a (null) DP-layer, contrary to previous claims. DA - 2019/12/09/ PY - 2019 DO - 10.3765/salt.v29i0.4626 DP - journals.linguisticsociety.org VL - 29 IS - 0 SP - 392 EP - 419 LA - en SN - 2163-5951 UR - https://journals.linguisticsociety.org/proceedings/index.php/SALT/article/view/29.392 Y2 - 2020/06/09/14:28:29 ER -