{"product_id":"the-highest-force-hypothesis","title":"The Highest Force Hypothesis","description":"This study discusses subordination in Swedish from the perspective of three\nconstruction types that involve clauses that have traditionally been notoriously\ndifficult to classify as unambiguous main or subordinate clauses: “embedded\nV2”-constructions, direct speech constructions, and exclamatives.\nA general hypothesis regarding subordination and ”superordination” is proposed:\nThe Highest Force Hypothesis. The formulation of this hypothesis draws on\nseminal work by den Besten (1983) and it is argued that the status of a Swedish\nclause as main or subordinate is directly linked to the position of the finite verb;\nverb movement takes place in main clauses, but not in subordinate clauses. Such\na proposal naturally raises a number of questions that are discussed in this work.\nIt is shown that the hierarchical status of the clauses involved in the three\nconstructions, “embedded V2”-clauses, direct speech, and exclamatives, can be\ngiven a unified account within the framework of The Highest Force Hypothesis.\nAn important point in the proposed analysis is that certain alleged hypotactic\nrelations are better viewed as textual relations holding between syntactically\nindependent main clauses.\nThe overarching aim of the study is to obtain a deeper understanding of superand\nsubordination on a general level and the The Highest Force Hypothesis is\napplied not only to clauses, but also to nonclausal structures.","brand":"Media-Tryck","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32436565147748,"sku":"9789187833151","price":31.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/the-highest-force-hypothesis","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}