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Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:27:42
From: Zoltán Páll [zoltan.pall at akademiai.hu]
Subject: Acta Linguistica Hungarica Vol.62, Vol.3 (2015)

 
Publisher:	Akadémiai Kiadó
			http://www.akademiai.com/ 
			
Journal Title:  Acta Linguistica Hungarica 
Volume Number:  62 
Issue Number:  3 
Issue Date:  2015 


Main Text:  

Hegedűs, Veronika
Book review
10.1556/064.2015.62.3.4
pp. 353-360. 

Csirmaz, Aniko
Re Hungarian again
10.1556/064.2015.62.3.2
pp. 263-295

Abstract: This paper is concerned with repetitive adverbials in Hungarian. It
presents an overview of the different Hungarian equivalents of again,
addressing their properties and their relevance. One of the goals of this
paper is descriptive; it offers a systematic description of Hungarian
repetitives. In addition, it provides evidence for two major claims. First,
meaning differences (including the restitutive — repetitive ambiguity) are due
to structural rather than lexical differences. Second, repetitives do not form
a homogeneous set. The possible scope positions and in some cases, the
denotation, of repetitive adverbials differs. This difference, in general,
cannot be predicted from the morphological makeup of the repetitives, so an
independent specification of the unexpected properties is necessary.

Bende-Farkas, Ágnes
The landscape of universal quantification in Old Hungarian
10.1556/064.2015.62.3.1
pp. 223-261

Abstract: This paper presents the system of Old Hungarian expressions
conveying universal or maximal readings, as found in Old Hungarian codices.
The main empirical findings are that (i) the OH suffix-keed could be a
(temporal) universal quantifier. Expressions with such suffixes can help
reconstruct quantifiers from the head-final stage of Hungarian. (ii) Old
Hungarian had bare pronouns that acquired a bound, quantificational reading
from long-distance operators. Against such a background, minden is claimed to
be a quintessential strong D-quantifier: It could undergo raising, and its
scope was flexible (within syntactic islands). (iii) These properties of
minden are distinctive within the class of particle + indeterminate pronoun
complexes (such as vala-ki lit. ‘vala-who’, ‘somebody’), which could be said
to lack quantificational force.

Manzini, Rita M.; Savoia, Leonardo M.; Franco, Ludovico
Ergative case, aspect and person splits: Two case studies
10.1556/064.2015.62.3.3
pp. 297-351

Abstract: Ergativity splits between perfect and imperfective/progressive
predicates are observed in languages with a specialized ergative case
(Punjabi) and without it (Kurdish). Perfect predicates correspond to a VP
projection; external arguments are introduced by means of an oblique case,
namely an elementary part–whole predicate saying that the event is ‘included
by’, ‘located at’ the argument. A more complex organization is found with
imperfective/progressive predicates, where a head Asp projects a functional
layer and introduces the external argument. Our proposal further yields the
1/2P vs. 3P Person split as a result of the intrinsic ability of 1/2P to serve
as ‘location-of-event’.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
                     Syntax

Subject Language(s): Hungarian (hun)
                     Hungarian, Old (ohu)
                     Punjabi (pan)

Language Family(ies): Kurdish


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