The syntax of Hungarian / Katalin É. Kiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiss, Katalin É.

Series:

Cambridge syntax guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian language--Syntax.

Hungarian language.

Physical Description:

xii, 278 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Contents:

1.1 Genealogy, areal distribution 1

1.2 A general overview of the syntactic and morphosyntactic features of Hungarian 2

2 The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence 8

2.1 The topic function 8

2.2 The formal features of the topic constituent 9

2.3 The marking of the topic-predicate boundary 11

2.4 The topic projection 12

2.5 Apparent and real topicless sentences. The (in)definiteness effect 14

2.6 Sentence adverbials and the topic-predicate articulation 20

2.7 The contrastive topic 22

3 The minimal predicate 27

3.1 Argument order in the VP 27

3.2 The referentiality effect 29

3.3 The subject as an internal argument 30

3.4 The structure of the VP 33

3.5 Morphosyntactic projections 43

3.6 The verbal prefix 55

3.7 The nominal predicate 71

4 Focussing 77

4.1 The focus function 77

4.2 The syntax of focus 83

4.3 Inherent foci 89

4.4 Only-phrases 93

4.5 Wh-questions 98

5 Quantification 105

5.1 Distributive quantifiers at the head of the predicate 105

5.2 The DistP projection 110

5.3 The scope principle 113

5.4 Quantifiers or adverbial modifiers? 126

6 Negation 130

6.1 Two NegP projections 130

6.2 The locus of negative pronouns licensed by nem 136

6.3 The status of sem 140

6.4 The universal and existential readings of negative pronouns 142

6.5 Long distance negative polarity 147

6.6 The negative existential verb 148

7 The noun phrase 151

7.1 The basic syntactic layers of the noun phrase 151

7.2 Evidence for the different noun phrase projections 155

7.3 The possessive construction 157

7.4 Non-possessor arguments in the noun phrase 175

8 The postpositional phrase 181

8.1 Restricting the category of postpositions 181

8.2 The formal properties of postpositional phrases 184

8.3 The structure of the postpositional phrase 188

8.4 PPs as verb modifiers 191

8.5 Case-marked pronouns or PPs? 194

9 Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases 199

9.2 Subject and object control constructions 199

9.3 Infinitival complex predicates 205

9.4 Agreeing infinitives with a case-marked subject 210

9.5 Adverbial participle phrases 221

9.6 Adjectival participle phrases 227

10 The subordinate clause 230

10.2 That-clauses 230

10.3 Relative clauses 243

10.4 Adverbial clauses 248

10.5 Long operator movement 250

10.6 Parasitic gaps 260.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-273) and index.

ISBN:

0521660475

0521669391

OCLC:

47658892