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Approaches to Hungarian : Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference.

van der Hulst, Harry.

Approaches to Hungarian : Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (267 pages) - Approaches to Hungarian Series ; v.15 . - Approaches to Hungarian Series .

Intro -- Approaches to Hungarian -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Internal-scope taking arguments in the information structure of deverbal nominals in Hungarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Internal- and external-scope readings in deverbal nominal constructions in Hungarian -- 3. The syntactic structure of deverbal nominal constructions with designated thematic possessors and free possessors -- 4. The syntactic structure of deverbal nominal constructions with internal-scope taking non-possessors -- 5. Hybrid scope taking -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 2. Structural ambiguity and case assignment in Hungarian clausal and phrasal comparatives -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Ambiguity and case assignment with single predicates (Type I) -- 3. Ambiguity and case assignment with two predicates (Type II) -- 4. The proposal: Semantics and underlying syntactic structures -- 5. Ellipsis -- 6. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3. Two positions for verbal modifiers: Evidence from derived particle verbs -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Inseparable particle verbs -- 3. Inseparable particles have some syntactic visibility -- 3.1 Co-occurrence with preverbal bare objects -- 3.2 Co-occurrence verbal particles -- 3.3 Co-occurrence with resultatives -- 4. Accounting for the inseparability of the particle -- 4.1 Theoretical background -- 4.2 The structure of inseparable particle verbs -- 5. Accounting for the co-occurrence restrictions -- 6. Consequences for argument structure -- 7. Variation -- 8. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 4. A representational account of vowel harmony in terms of variable elements and licensing -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The framework -- 3. Asymmetries in VH -- 3.1 Opacity. 3.2 On the form and function of phonotactic constraints -- 3.3 Context-free, context-sensitive and idiosyncratic neutralization -- 3.4 Transparency -- 3.4 A four-way typology -- 4. Transparency and opacity revisited -- 5. Bridge locality -- 5.1 Unexpected transparency and opacity: The case of Khalkha (Mongolian) -- 5.2 Unexpected transparency of [a] in tongue root systems -- 6. Concluding remarks -- References -- Chapter 5. Co-patterns, subpatterns and conflicting generalizations in Hungarian vowel harmony -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background: Overview of variation in HVH -- 3. The count effects: CE & -- PS -- 4. Harmonic Uniformity -- 5. Sequential Bias -- 6. The structure of coexisting patterns in HVH -- 7. Conclusion: Generalisations, co-patterns, subpatterns -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 6. Measure constructions in Hungarian and the semantics of the -nyi suffix -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Measures with and without -nyi -- 3. N-nyi is a measure head -- 4. Conditions for the occurrence and non-occurrence of -nyi -- 5. What is -nyi and what do -nyi phrases indicate? -- 6. -nyi as an approximative operator -- 7. Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 7. Hungarian classifier constructions, plurality and the mass-count distinction -- 1. The problem -- 2. Plurality is not a classifier -- 3. Evidence for a mass/count distinction in Hungarian -- 4. Flexible nouns -- 5. Some crosslinguistic contextualisation -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 8. Focus and quantifier scope: An experimental study of Hungarian -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Background and research questions -- 2.1 Quantifier scope in Hungarian -- 2.2 Research questions -- 3. The experiment -- 3.1 Method and material -- 3.2 Results -- 4. Discussion -- 5. Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 9. *VV in Hungarian -- 1. Introduction. 1.1 Goals -- 1.2 Preliminaries -- 1.3 Background -- 2. Hiatus resolution: Root + suffix -- 2.1 V2 deletion -- 2.2 V1 deletion -- 2.3 No deletion -- 2.4 Suffix allomorphy -- 3. Hiatus resolution: Suffix + suffix -- 3.1 V2 deletion -- 3.2 V1 deletion -- 3.3 No deletion -- 4. Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Index.

This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing.

9789027265531


Hungarian language--Grammar.


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