Pseudoclefts in Hungarian
- 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).
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| Author: | Jutta M. Hartmann, Veronika Hegedűs, Balázs Surányi |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.13.05har |
| ISBN: | 978-90-272-0483-7 |
| Parent Title (English): | Approaches to Hungarian. Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference |
| Publisher: | Benjamins |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam/Philadelphia |
| Editor: | Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár, Christer Platzack |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2013 |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2016/11/09 |
| Publicationstate: | Postprint |
| GND Keyword: | Satzanalyse; Spaltsatz; Ungarisch |
| First Page: | 67 |
| Last Page: | 97 |
| Note: | The article is under copyright of Benjamins. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form. |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 490 Andere Sprachen |
| Open Access?: | nein |
| Licence (German): |  Urheberrechtlich geschützt |