The Syntax of Hungarian

ISBN-13: 9780521669399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 292 str.

Katalin E. Kiss; J. Bresnan; D. Lightfoot

Opis

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. Katalin E. Kiss's textbook explores issues currently at the center of theoretical debates, including the syntax and semantics of focus, the analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord.

Recenzje

'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

Spis treści

1. Introduction; 2. The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence; 3. The minimal predicate; 4. Focusing; 5. Quantification; 6. Negation; 7. The noun phrases; 8. The postpositional phrase; 9. Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases; 10. The subordinate clause.