@incollection{HartmannHegedűsSuranyi2016, author = {Jutta M. Hartmann and Veronika Hegedűs and Bal{\´a}zs Sur{\´a}nyi}, title = {Pseudoclefts in Hungarian}, series = {Approaches to Hungarian. Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference}, editor = {Johan Brandtler and Val{\´e}ria Moln{\´a}r and Christer Platzack}, publisher = {Benjamins}, address = {Amsterdam/Philadelphia}, isbn = {978-90-272-0483-7}, doi = {10.1075/atoh.13.05har}, pages = {67 -- 97}, year = {2016}, abstract = {Based on novel data from Hungarian, this paper makes the case that in at least some languages specificational pseudocleft sentences must receive a ‘what-you- see-is-what-you-get’ syntactic analysis. More specifically, it is argued that the clefted constituent is the subject of predication (underlyingly base-generated in Spec, Pr), whereas the cleft clause acts as a predicate in the structure. Alongside connectivity effects characteristic of specificational pseudoclefts, we also discuss a range of anti-connectivity effects, which we show to receive a straightforward explanation under the proposed analysis. It follows that attested connectivity effects, in turn, require a semantic, rather than a syntactic account, along the lines of Jacobson (1994) and Sharvit (1999).}, language = {en} }