30.403, Books: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language Use: Németh T

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Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2019 12:30:54
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian Language Use: Németh T

 


Title: Implicit Subject and Direct Object Arguments in Hungarian
Language Use 
Subtitle: Grammar and Pragmatics Interacting 
Series Title: Pragmatic Interfaces  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
	   http://www.equinoxpub.com/
	

Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/implicit-subject/ 


Author: Enikő Németh T

Electronic: ISBN:  9781781795965 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 100 Comment: see website
Hardback: ISBN:  9781781795958 Pages: 268 Price: U.S. $ 100


Abstract:

This book studies how Hungarian verbs can occur with implicit subject and
direct object arguments in a complex approach. On the basis of the critical
evaluations of the previous literature on implicit arguments, analyses of a
wide spectrum of data from various direct sources, and theoretical
explanations, all of which were supported by systematic metatheoretical
considerations, it concludes that in Hungarian, verbs do not vary as to
whether they can be used with implicit arguments or not, but they vary as to
the manner in which they can occur with such arguments. In other words, they
vary in terms of the lexical and grammatical constraints which are placed on
them, and in what contexts they can be used with lexically unrealised
arguments. Although the cognitive principle of relevance guides the licensing
and interpretation processes of implicit arguments, the variety of their
occurrences does not rest solely on the presumption of relevance but on the
different lexical, grammatical, and pragmatic properties of Hungarian and its
use, as well as on their various interactions. So, it is only by operating
together that a grammar and an adequate pragmatic theory can account for the
occurrences and identification mechanisms of implicit arguments.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): Hungarian (hun)


Written In: English  (eng)

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