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The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence

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Authors:
  1. Éva Dékány

    1. Research Institute for Linguistics, Benczúr utca, Hungary

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  • Shines a new light on well-worn data like the structure of pronouns and possessive anti-agreement.
  • Offers detailed analyses of poorly treated topics such as the associative plural and the insides of demonstratives.
  • Proposes that contrary to the widely held view, certain plural markers in the Hungarian DP are pure agreement morphemes.

Part of the book series: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory (SNLT, volume 100)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 1-14

  3. The Functional Sequence up to QP

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 15-92

  4. The Functional Sequence Above QP

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 93-157

  5. Possessive DPs

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 159-211

  6. Pronouns

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 213-262

  7. Conclusions

    • Éva Dékány
    Pages 263-265

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 267-273
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About this book

The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence combines the methods of syntactic cartography with evidence from compositional semantics in a comprehensive exploration of the structure of Noun Phrases. Proceeding from the lexical core to the top of DP, it uses Hungarian as a window on the underlying universal functional hierarchy of Noun Phrases, but it also regularly complements and supports the analysis with cross-linguistic evidence. The book works out a minimal map of the extended NP in the sense that the proposed hierarchy only has projections which host overt material and it does not draw on semantically empty word order projections. Topics which receive special attention include the syntax of classifiers, demonstratives, proper names, possessive NPs and plural pronouns.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Research Institute for Linguistics, Benczúr utca, Hungary

    Éva Dékány

About the author

Éva Dékány is a senior researcher at the Research Institute for Linguistics in Budapest. She received her PhD in theoretical linguistics from the University of Tromsø in 2012. Her main areas of interest are the structure of nominal and adpositional phrases as well as subordination in Hungarian and various Finno-Ugric languages.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Hungarian Nominal Functional Sequence

  • Authors: Éva Dékány

  • Series Title: Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63441-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., part of Springer Nature 2021

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-63439-1Published: 10 March 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-63441-4Published: 09 March 2021

  • Series ISSN: 0924-4670

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-0358

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 273

  • Number of Illustrations: 73 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Language, Syntax

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