Search for dissertations about: "Factive islands"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the words Factive islands.

2. 1. Studies on Factivity, Complementation, and Propositional Attitudes

   Author : Roberta Colonna Dahlman; Italienska; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Protagonist projection.; Sapere; Ambiguity; Factive islands; Conversational implicature; Presupposition; Entailment; Regret; Know; Factivity; The Interface Hypothesis; L1 Attrition; Verbs of propositional attitude; Complementizer; Gallipolino; Sentential complementation;

   Abstract : This dissertation is a collection of seven papers in which a number of questions are investigated regarding verbs that take a sentential complement as their direct object. These verbs are considered from different perspectives, namely from the perspective of the propositional attitude they express, or from the perspective of the syntactic construction they select, or from the point of view of the implications to which they might give rise. READ MORE