Full Description
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions, sluicing in relative clauses, generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item, the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hungarian, and cataphoric propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian and German. The papers in morphosyntax analyze morphological alienability splits and the manifestation of the Inverse Agreement Constraint in Hungarian. The studies in phonetics and phonology inquire into regressive voicing assimilation in Hungarian and Slovak, and explore the predictions of the Functional Load Hypothesis for stress-marking and the relationship between the phonetic and phonological properties of /a:/ in Hungarian.
The volume will appeal not just to scholars working on Hungarian, but to a general audience of theoretical linguists.
Contents
1. Introduction; 2. Arguments for arguments in the complement zone of the Hungarian nominal head (by Alberti, Gabor); 3. Inverse agreement and Hungarian verb paradigms (by Barany, Andras); 4. Why do sonorants not voice in Hungarian? And why do they voice in Slovak? (by Barkanyi, Zsuzsanna); 5. Word order variation in Hungarian PPs (by Dekany, Eva); 6. The morphosyntax of (in)alienably possessed noun phrases: The Hungarian contribution (by Dikken, Marcel den); 7. Abstractness or complexity?: The case of Hungarian /a:/ (by Gosy, Maria); 8. Free Choice and Aspect in Hungarian (by Halm, Tamas); 9. Relative pronouns as sluicing remnants (by Liptak, Aniko); 10. The Predicationality Hypothesis: The case of Hungarian and German (by Molnar, Valeria); 11. Psych verbs, anaphors and the configurationality issue in Hungarian (by Rakosi, Gyorgy); 12. Acoustic properties of prominence in Hungarian and the Functional Load Hypothesis (by Vogel, Irene); 13. Index
