The Syntax of Hungarian ( Cambridge Syntax Guides )

Publication series :Cambridge Syntax Guides

Author: Katalin É. Kiss  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9780511033278

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521660471

Subject: H04 grammar

Keyword: 语法学

Language: ENG

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The Syntax of Hungarian

Description

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 make up universal grammar. The textbook explores issues 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.

Chapter

2.6 Sentence adverbials and the topic–predicate articulation

2.7 The contrastive topic

2.8 Summary

3 The minimal predicate

3.1 Argument order in the VP

3.2 The referentiality effect

3.3 The subject as an internal argument

3.4 The structure of the VP

3.4.1 Evidence from disjoint reference

3.4.2 Evidence from anaphora

3.4.3 Evidence from Weak Crossover

3.4.4 Weighing the evidence

3.5 Morphosyntactic projections

3.5.1 Modality, tense, mood

3.5.2 Object agreement and subject agreement

3.6 The verbal prefix

3.6.1 Its category and structural position

3.6.2 The AspP projection

3.6.3 The class of verb modifiers

3.7 The nominal predicate

3.8 Summary

4 Focussing

4.1 The focus function

4.2 The syntax of focus

4.2.1 Deriving the focus–verb adjacency

4.2.2 The FP projection

4.3 Inherent foci

4.4 Only-phrases

4.4.1 The syntax of only

4.4.2 The semantics of only

4.5 Wh-questions

4.5.1 Simple wh-questions

4.5.2 Multiple questions

4.6 Summary

5 Quantification

5.1 Distributive quantifiers at the head of the predicate

5.2 The DistP projection

5.3 The scope principle

5.3.1 Preverbal quantifiers

5.3.2 Postverbal unstressed quantifiers

5.3.3 Postverbal stressed quantifiers

5.3.4 Quantifiers in topic position

5.3.5 Noun phrase internal quantifiers

5.4 Quantifiers or adverbial modifiers?

5.5 Summary

6 Negation

6.1 Two NegP projections

6.2 The locus of negative pronouns licensed by nem

6.3 The status of sem

6.4 The universal and existential readings of negative pronouns

6.5 Long distance negative polarity

6.6 The negative existential verb

6.7 Summary

7 The noun phrase

7.1 The basic syntactic layers of the noun phrase

7.2 Evidence for the different noun phrase projections

7.3 The possessive construction

7.3.1 The facts

7.3.2 Relating the caseless and the dative possessor

7.3.3 Agreement and anti-agreement in the possessive construction

7.3.4 The non-specific possessive construction

7.4 Non-possessor arguments in the noun phrase

7.4.1 The subject and object of the verbal stem in event noun phrases

7.4.2 Oblique arguments and adjuncts

7.5 Summary

8 The postpositional phrase

8.1 Restricting the category of postpositions

8.2 The formal properties of postpositional phrases

8.2.1 Distribution

8.2.2 Agreement and anti-agreement phenomena

8.3 The structure of the postpositional phrase

8.4 PPs as verb modifiers

8.5 Case-marked pronouns or PPs?

8.6 Summary

9 Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases

9.1 Introduction

9.2 Subject and object control constructions

9.2.1 Subject and object control verbs

9.2.2 The inner structure of the infinitive phrase

9.2.3 Long distance object agreement?

9.3 Infinitival complex predicates

9.3.1 The licensing of verbal complex formation

9.3.2 The straight verbal complex

9.3.3 The inverse verbal complex

9.4 Agreeing infinitives with a case-marked subject

9.4.1 Their formal properties

9.4.2 The distribution of the agreeing infinitive and the dative subject

9.4.3 The source of the dative case

9.5 Adverbial participle phrases

9.5.1 Adjunct adverbial participle phrases

9.5.2 Predicative adverbial participle phrases

9.6 Adjectival participle phrases

9.7 Summary

10 The subordinate clause

10.1 Introduction

10.2 That-clauses

10.2.1 The structure of clausal arguments

10.2.2 The position of the subordinate clause in the matrix sentence

10.2.3 Interrogative that-clauses

10.2.4 Adjunct that-clauses

10.3 Relative clauses

10.4 Adverbial clauses

10.5 Long operator movement

10.5.1 The types of operators subject to long movement

10.5.2 Constraints on long operator movement

10.5.3 The procedure of long operator movement

10.5.4 A base-generated construction

10.6 Parasitic gaps

10.7 Summary

References

Index

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