Hungarian word order

[Ivan A Sag]

Has anyone developed a Reape or Kathol linearization-based analysis
of Hungarian word order? The data discussed in Kati Kiss's paper
published last year in Linguistic Inquiry looks ripe for such
an analysis...

-Ivan

Free Word Order, (Non)configurationality, and Phases 
Katalin E´. Kiss 

The article argues that a particular implementation of phase theory 
makes it possible to account for seemingly contradictory facts of Hun- 
garian that no other framework has been able to handle. Namely, (a) 
Hungarian word order is fixed preverbally and free postverbally. The 
fixed word order of a string is liberated when it is crossed by V- 
movement. (b) Grammatical phenomena sensitive to c-command pro- 
vide evidence of both configurationality and nonconfigurationality. 
The proposal is based on the following assumptions: The derivation 
of the Hungarian sentence involves a lexical phase (PredP) and a func- 
tional phase (a TP or a FocP), both headed by the raised V. When the 
functional phase is constructed, the silent lower copies of the V and 
their projections are deleted, which results in the flattening of the 
phasal domain. Grammatical phenomena indicative of a hierarchical 
structure are interpreted on the hierarchical domain of the lexical 
phase, whereas those indicative of a flat structure are interpreted on 
the flattened domain of the functional phase. The sister constituents 
of the flattened domain of the functional phase can be linearized in a 
free order in PF. 

Keywords: phase, free word order, anaphora, Principle C, weak cross- 
over, quantifier scope 


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