David Petersson

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The Highest Force Hypothesis

THIS STUDY DISCUSSES subordination in Swedish from the perspective of threeconstruction types that involve clauses that have traditionally been notoriouslydifficult to classify as unambiguous main or subordinate clauses: “embeddedV2”-constructions, direct speech constructions, and exclamatives.A general hypothesis regarding subordination and ”superordination” is proposed:The Highest Force Hypothesis. The formulation of this hypothesis draws onseminal work by den Besten (1983) and it is argued that the status of a Swedishclause as main or subordinate is directly linked to the position of the finite verb;verb movement takes place in main clauses, but not in subordinate clauses. Sucha proposal naturally raises a number of questions that are discussed in this work.It is shown that the hierarchical status of the clauses involved in the threeconstructions, “embedded V2”-clauses, direct speech, and exclamatives, can begiven a unified account within the framework of The Highest Force Hypothesis.An important point in the proposed analysis is that certain alleged hypotacticrelations are better viewed as textual relations holding between syntacticallyindependent main clauses.The overarching aim of the study is to obtain a deeper understanding of superandsubordination on a general level and the The Highest Force Hypothesis isapplied not only to clauses, but also to nonclausal structures.

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