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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779926103321

Autore

Kiss Katalin É

Titolo

The syntax of Hungarian / / Katalin É. Kiss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002

ISBN

1-107-12838-2

1-280-43253-5

0-511-14846-1

0-511-30535-4

0-511-17797-6

0-511-04851-3

0-521-66939-1

0-511-75508-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge syntax guides

Disciplina

494/.5115

Soggetti

Hungarian language - Syntax

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The topic...predicate articulation of the sentence; 3 The minimal predicate; 4 Focussing; 5 Quantification; 6 Negation; 7 The noun phrase; 8 The postpositional phrase; 9 Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases; 10 The subordinate clause; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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. The analysis of Hungarian in the generative framework since the late Seventies has helped to bring phenomena which are non-overt in the English language into the focus of syntactic research. As Kiss shows, its results have been built into the hypotheses that make up universal grammar. The textbook explores issues at the centre of theoretical debates including the syntax and semantics of focus, the



analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord. This useful guide will be welcomed by students and researchers working on syntax and those interested in Finno-Ugric languages.