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The Syntax of Hungarian

By: Katalin E. Kiss

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Hardcover | 13 June 2002

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Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features of the language, focusing on the phenomena that have proved to be theoretically the most relevant and have attracted the most attention. The analysis of Hungarian in the generative framework since the late Seventies has helped to bring phenomena which are non-overt in the English language into the focus of syntactic research. As Kiss shows, its results have been built into the hypotheses that currently make up universal grammar. The textbook explores issues currently at the centre of theoretical debates including the syntax and semantics of focus, the analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord. This useful guide will be welcomed by students and researchers working on syntax and those interested in Finno-Ugric languages.

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'It is entirely fitting that Katalin E. Kiss should be the author of this welcome addition to the Cambridge Syntax Guides series ... This offers an introduction not only to aspects that have attracted international interest in recent years ... but also to areas less explored in traditional Hungarian synchronic linguistics ...'. Slavonic & East European Review 'The book represents a systematic study of Hungarian sentance structure. In each chapter the reader is led through detailed arguementaions, a wealth of data and presentations of several previous analyses with their merits and shortcomings discussed. ... this book provides a detailed investigation of a wide range of phenomena in Hungarian syntax... It is both an invaluable summary of the results of contemporary syntactic research on Hungarian and original work in all senses of the word. I recommend this book to anyone who is interested in issues concerning the structure of Hungarian.' Acta Linguistica Hungarica

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Genealogy, areal distribution	p. 1
A general overview of the syntactic and morphosyntactic features of Hungarian	p. 2
The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence	p. 8
The topic function	p. 8
The formal features of the topic constituent	p. 9
The marking of the topic-predicate boundary	p. 11
The topic projection	p. 12
Apparent and real topicless sentences. The (in)definiteness effect	p. 14
Sentence adverbials and the topic-predicate articulation	p. 20
The contrastive topic	p. 22
Summary	p. 25
The minimal predicate	p. 27
Argument order in the VP	p. 27
The referentiality effect	p. 29
The subject as an internal argument	p. 30
The structure of the VP	p. 33
Morphosyntactic projections	p. 43
The verbal prefix	p. 55
The nominal predicate	p. 71
Summary	p. 75
Focussing	p. 77
The focus function	p. 77
The syntax of focus	p. 83
Inherent foci	p. 89
Only-phrases	p. 93
Wh-questions	p. 98
Summary	p. 104
Quantification	p. 105
Distributive quantifiers at the head of the predicate	p. 105
The DistP projection	p. 110
The scope principle	p. 113
Quantifiers or adverbial modifiers?	p. 126
Summary	p. 129
Negation	p. 130
Two NegP projections	p. 130
The locus of negative pronouns licensed by nem	p. 136
The status of sem	p. 140
The universal and existential readings of negative pronouns	p. 142
Long distance negative polarity	p. 147
The negative existential verb	p. 148
Summary	p. 149
The noun phrase	p. 151
The basic syntactic layers of the noun phrase	p. 151
Evidence for the different noun phrase projections	p. 155
The possessive construction	p. 157
Non-possessor arguments in the noun phrase	p. 175
Summary	p. 179
The postpositional phrase	p. 181
Restricting the category of postpositions	p. 181
The formal properties of postpositional phrases	p. 184
The structure of the postpositional phrase	p. 188
PPs as verb modifiers	p. 191
Case-marked pronouns or PPs?	p. 194
Summary	p. 197
Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases	p. 199
Introduction	p. 199
Subject and object control constructions	p. 199
Infinitival complex predicates	p. 205
Agreeing infinitives with a case-marked subject	p. 210
Adverbial participle phrases	p. 221
Adjectival participle phrases	p. 227
Summary	p. 229
The subordinate clause	p. 230
Introduction	p. 230
That-clauses	p. 230
Relative clauses	p. 243
Adverbial clauses	p. 248
Long operator movement	p. 250
Parasitic gaps	p. 260
Summary	p. 262
References	p. 265
Index	p. 275
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