The Syntactic Structure of Hungarian (27) (SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS)

✍ Scribed by Stephen R. Anderson (editor), Katalin F. Kiss (editor)

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Year: 1994
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 495
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Hungarian syntax has played a vital, albeit much debated role in linguistic theory since the early 1980s. Volume 27 of "Syntax and Semantics" is the result of a project on Hungarian syntax launched in the early 1980s at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The volume illuminates relevant and insightful aspects of Hungarian syntax. It assumes the basic theoretical claims and the basic methodology of generative linguistic theory, and shows that descriptive grammar is best approached by posing theoretically interesting questions. It features comprehensive coverage of Hungarian syntax and presents a complete analysis of salient questions and theories. It offers new insights into Hungarian syntax and discusses the important role Hungarian syntax has played in linguistic theory throughout the past decade.

✦ Table of Contents

SYNTAX and SEMANTICS: VOLUME 27
CONTENTS
Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
Sentence Structure and Word Order
1. Introduction
2. Phrase Structure
3. Topic Prominence or Subject Prominence?
4. The V' Component
5. Focus Movement
6. WR-Movement
7. Incorporation
8. Quantifier Raising
9. Topicalization
10. Left Dislocation
11. Summary
References
Complements and Adjuncts
1. Introduction
2. Terminology
3. On the Expression of Grammatical Relations in Hungarian
4. Verbal Modifiers
5. Reduction of Overt Complement Frames
6. Causativization
7. Participles and Deverbal Adjectives
8. Some Thoughts on the Nature of "Modification"
9. Secondary Predication
10. Subjectless Verbs and Sentences
References
The Noun Phrase
1. Introduction
2. Basic Facts about Word Order and Morphology in the Noun Phrase
Part I. Possessors and Determiners
3. On the Clausal Analogy to Be Proposed
4. The Structure of the Inflected Noun Phrase
5. The Structure of DP: Possessor Extraction
6. Subordinators: Articles and Complementizers
7. Specificity and Definiteness in the Noun Phrase
8. "HAVE Sentences" and Nonspecific Possessives
Part II. Arguments and Adjuncts of Derived Nominals
9. Introduction
10. On the Argument Structure Analysis to be Proposed
11. Grimshaw on Complex Event and Result Nominals
12. Complex Events Have Arguments
13. Nominal Argument Structure
14. PRO versus Suppression
15. The Structure of DP and the Location of PRO
16. Adjectivalization and the Scope of the Deverbal Suffix
References
Subordinate Clauses
1. On Subordination in General
2. Relative Clauses
3. that-Clauses
4. The Positions of Embedded Clauses in the Matrix Sentence
5. Miscellaneous Issues in Embedding
6. Summary
References
Coordination
1. Introduction
2. Empirical Data
3. Ellipsis and Gapping in Hungarian Coordinated Sentences
4. Further Syntactic Constraints on the Occurrence of Conjunctions
5. Gapping in Coordinated Focusless Sentences
6. The Directionality Constraint, Ellipsis, and Gapping
7. The Structure of Focusless Sentences: Data and Problems
8. The Directionality Constraint and Ellipsis in Sentences with Filled Focus and Quantor Position
9. Directionality Violations and Anaphoric [pro-V'] in Sentences With Filled Focus Position
10. The Reconstruction of Ellipsis: Substitution or Anaphora? The Significance of [pro-V']
11. Some Typological Features
12. Summary
References
Aspect and Syntactic Structure
1. Introduction
2. The Progressive
3. The Perfective
4. Summary
References
Index
SYNTAX AND SEMANTICS