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Kajsa Djärv

University of Edinburgh

k(dot)djarv(at)ed(dot)ac(dot)uk

Dissertation

Djärv K. (2019). Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports. Ph.D. Dissertation. University of Pennsylvania. [available here]
 

Journal articles

Djärv, Kajsa & Farkas, Donka (in preparation). Embedded main clause assertions and questions.

Djärv, Kajsa (2023). Kn
owing and believing things: what DP-complements can tell us about the argument structure and composition of (factive) attitudes. Journal of Semantics, Vol. 40(2). 1-55. [link to journal]


Djärv, Kajsa (2022). On the interpretation and distribution of embedded main clause syntax: new perspectives on complex discourse moves. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Vol. 7(1). 1-39. (Part of Uegaki & Roelofsen (eds.) The interface between logic and grammar in the domain of clausal complementation). [link to journal]

Djärv, Kajsa (2021). The Syntax and Semantics of Swedish Copular Sentences: A Comparative Perspective. The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 24(1). 49-88. [link to journal]

Djärv, Kajsa & Bacovcin, Hezekiah Akiva (2020). Prosodic Effects on Factive Presupposition Projection. The Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 169: 61-85. [link to journal, pdf, slides from ESSLLI 2024

Caplan, Spencer & Djärv, Kajsa (2019). What usage can tell us about grammar: Embedded Verb Second in Scandinavian. Glossa: a journal of general linguistics 4(1): 101. 1-37. [link to journal

Book chapters

Schwarz, Florian, Djärv, Kajsa & Zehr, Jérémy (2020). Do Italian factives entail their presuppositions? Yes, but... In Bhatt, Frana, & Menendez-Benito (eds.) Making Worlds Accessible. Essays in Honor of Angelika Kratzer. Angelika Kratzer Festschrift. 1. MA: ScholwarWorks at UMass. [link to volume]

Djärv, Kajsa, Heycock, Caroline & Rohde, Hannah (2017). Assertion and Factivity: Towards explaining restrictions on Embedded V2 in Scandinavian. In Bailey & Sheehan (eds.) Order and Structure in Syntax (Open Generative Syntax). Berlin: Language Science Press. [link to volume]
 
Conference proceedings

Djärv, Kajsa. Source and Content DPs: belief-verbs as optionally ditransitive Hintikkan attitudes. To appear in Walter Smith (ed.) Proceedings of the 39th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL39). [preprint]

Djärv, Kajsa & Romero, Maribel (2021). (Non-)factive (non-)islands and meaning-based approaches. In Dreier, Kwon, Darnell, & Starr (eds.) Proceedings of the 31th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT31), 184-200. [
link to website]


Djärv, Kajsa (2020). Factivity, Assertion, and Clausal Definiteness. In Soo, Chow, & Nederveen (eds.) Proceedings of the 38th West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics (WCCFL38), 169-179. [link to website]

Djärv, Kajsa (2019). The Syntax of Assertion and Presupposition. In Blake & Davis (eds.) Proceedings of the 29th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT29), 392-419. [link to website]

Bacovcin, Hezekiah Akiva & Djärv, Kajsa (2017). Prosodic Effects on Factive Presupposition Projection. In Burgdorf, Collard, Maspong, & Stefánsdóttir (eds.) Proceedings of the 27th meeting of Semantics and Linguistic Theory (SALT27), 116-133. [link to website]

Djärv, Kajsa, Zehr, Jérémy & Schwarz, Florian (2017). Cognitive vs. Emotive Factives: an Experimental Differentiation, In Truswell, Cummins, Heycock, Rabern, & Rohde (eds.) Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21 (SuB21), 367-385. [link to website]

Djärv, Kajsa (2017). Predicting Mergers in New Dialect Formation. In Goodwin Davies & Djärv (eds.) Proceedings of the 40th Penn Linguistics Conference (PLC40). University of Pennsylvania Working Papers in Linguistics (PWPL), 39-47. [link to website]
 
Experimental materials (open access)
 
Materials used in the dissertation (Djärv 2019) to to investigate the lexical and pragmatic licensing conditions of different types of Main Clause Syntax are publicly available through the Open Science Foundation. If you would like to use or refer to this material, please cite:

Djärv, Kajsa. 2019. "Factive and Assertive Attitude Reports." PhD Thesis. University of Pennsylvania.

Djärv, Kajsa. 2019. “Assertion and Presuppositions in Attitude Reports and Main Clause Syntax.” OSF. September 16. DOI: https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/NSM89.
 
(Note that this site is still under construction, so please be aware of potential bugs. And please consult Chapter 3.2. of the dissertation before using the materials.)

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