Katalin E Ki
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 529540 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Katalin E Ki |
| NOMBRES | Katalin E |
| APELLIDO | Ki |
| FIRMA | KI K E |
| AFILIACIONES | ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2054-4593 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 255 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The role of opacity in the attrition of the Hungarian passive
It is argued that the passive construction, common in the SOV Ob-Ugric sister languages of Hungarian displaying fused grammatical and discourse functions, was a frequent construction in Proto-Hungarian, as well, but its use gradually declined in the Old and Middle Hungarian periods, and it completely disappeared in the New Hungarian era. The attrition of passive voice is attributed to the growing opacity of the passive construction, and the exist…
From Parataxis to Finite Subordination in The Ugric Languages and Beyond
This article documents an evolutionary pathway from parataxis via the correlative construction to finite subordination in the Ugric languages. The first step of the emergence of finite subordination is the appearance of a paratactic precorrelative sentence pair, with an indefinite pronoun in the first sentence that is anaphorically resumed in the second sentence. This pattern, witnessed in the SOV Ob-Ugric languages, developed into a full-fledged…
The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty
Prior to widespread contact with Russian, Khanty (Uralic; Finno-Ugric) did not have overt conjunctions or phrasal coordination. Instead, Khanty texts from the late 19th–early 20th centuries only include examples of conjunction-less clausal juxtaposition, which was used for both clausal and phrasal coordination. By comparing Khanty texts over the 20th century, we trace the emergence of overt conjunctions and coordination of phrasal constituents. W…
From narrative past to mirativity and direct evidentiality
This paper describes the evolution of grammaticalized evidentiality in the Moldavian dialect of Hungarian. It documents how the suffix -a/e , originally the marker of narrative past, became a rare, elevated marker of past tense highlighting significant past events; how it assumed a mirative overtone; and how the features ʻwitnessedʼ and ʻimmediate pastʼ, often present in mirative utterances, became inherent parts of its meaning. This grammaticali…
From relative proadverb to declarative complementizer
The declarative complementizer has been claimed to have grammaticalized from a relative pronoun in various Indo-European languages. The source construction is assumed to have been the correlative sentence . The initial phase of the hypothesized process, however, has remained unclear; in the explicative clause to which e.g. the Germanic that -type complementizers can be traced back (Mary knows that, that Peter is lying), that is already a compleme…
Discourse configurationality
Possessive Agreement Turned into a Derivational Suffix
From Possessor Agreement to Object Marking in the Evolution Of the Udmurt -Jez Suffix
This article argues that morpheme syncretism can arise as a result of structural and functional changes that display features of a grammaticalization process. Our claim is based on a case study analyzing the functional evolution of -jez, the third singular possessive agreement morpheme of Udmurt, which appears to function as a nominalizer, to mark contrast, to function as a kind of definite determiner, and to mark accusative case. We argue that t…
From possessor agreement to object marking in the evolution of the Udmurt -jez suffix
This article argues that morpheme syncretism can arise as a result of structural and functional changes that display features of a grammaticalization process. Our claim is based on a case study analyzing the functional evolution of - jez , the third singular possessive agreement morpheme of Udmurt, which appears to function as a nominalizer, to mark contrast, to function as a kind of definite determiner, and to mark accusative case. We argue that…
Quantifier Scope Ambiguities
Sentences containing quantifiers are often ambiguous, as quantificational DPs interact with one another, and with wh ‐phrases, negation, and adverbials. This kind of ambiguity is an ambiguity with respect to the scope of the quantifiers. However, sentences containing several quantifiers or operators are not always scope ambiguous: compare, for example, the ambiguous Some of us always showed up with the unequivocal Always, some of us showed up . T…
The Person–Case Constraint and the Inverse Agreement Constraint are manifestations of the same Inverse Topicality Constraint
This paper first claims that the Inverse Agreement Constraint and the Person–Case Constraint attested in overlapping sets of Uralic languages are manifestations of the same Inverse Topicality Constraint, requiring that the structural hierarchy of topicalized constituents correspond to the ranking of their referents in the Animacy/Topicality Hierarchy. Then it argues that it is the hypothesized Inverse Topicality Constraint that also underlies the…
Why is children’s interpretation of doubly quantified sentences non-isomorphic
The initial hypothesis examined in this paper is that Hungarian preschoolers assign to sentences containing two numerical quantifiers and a distributivity marker the same isomorphic distributive interpretation as Hungarian adults do. This hypothesis is partially refuted by Experiment 1, a truth value judgement task, and Experiment 2, a forced choice task, which show that children can access distributive readings, however, they tend to accept both…
Approaches to Hungarian
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications. The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions, sluicing in relative clauses, generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item, the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hunga…
A negative cycle in 12th–15th‐century Hungarian
This chapter analyses two changes that took place in the syntax of negation in 12th–15th‐century Hungarian. Parallel with the restructuring of the Hungarian sentence from SOV to TopFocVX*, a sentence structure with separate thematic and functional domains, the negative particle ceased to be adjoined to the verb. It was relocated into the left periphery, where it assumed the role of a functional head eliciting V‐movement. The central topic of the …
Discourse Configurationality
Ways of licensing Hungarian external possessors
This paper examines the status of Hungarian dative noun phrases interpreted as external possessors of a sister constituent. It challenges the widely accepted view put forth by Szabolcsi (1983; 1992, etc.) that external possessors are uniformly assigned a theta role by the possessum, and they are uniformly raised from its maximal projection via A-bar movement. It argues instead that external possessors can also be base-generated outside the projec…
From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X
This paper argues that Hungarian underwent a word order change from SOV to Top Foc V X* prior to its documented history beginning in 1192. Proto-Hungarian SOV is reconstructed primarily on the basis of shared constructions of archaic Old Hungarian, and Khanty and Mansi, the sister languages of Hungarian. The most likely scenario of the change from head-final to head-initial was the spreading of right dislocation, and the reanalysis of right dislo…
Preschoolers’ interpretation of doubly quantified sentences
This paper presents the results of two sentence-picture matching experiments investigating how Hungarian preschoolers interpret doubly quantified sentences involving numerical quantifiers. We claim that for Hungarian children, scope interpretation is primarily determined by the structure of the visual representation of the event associated with the given sentence. We found in a series of previous experiments that children’s preferred scope order …
Patterns of agreement with coordinate noun phrases in Hungarian
An adjunction analysis of quantifiers and adverbials in the Hungarian sentence
Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces
A pioneering theory of information structure
The paper deals with Samuel Brassai, a 19th-century Hungarian linguist and polyhistor, who was the first in the world to discover the role of information structure in the syntactic organization of the sentence. Preparing to describe Hungarian syntax, he first wanted to establish the universal and typical characteristics of the sentence on the basis of a number of genetically unrelated languages. The universal structure he identified is essentiall…
Topic and focus
The paper explicates the notions of topic, contrastive topic, and focus as used in the analysis of Hungarian. Based on distributional criteria, topic and focus are claimed to represent distinct structural positions in the left periphery of the Hungarian sentence, associated with logical rather than discourse functions. The topic is interpreted as the logical subject of predication. The focus is analyzed as a derived main predicate, specifying the…
Free Word Order, (Non)configurationality, and Phases
The article argues that a particular implementation of phase theory makes it possible to account for seemingly contradictory facts of Hungarian 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 provide evidence of both configurationality and non…
Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages
Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Gra…
Identificational Focus versus Information Focus
This article argues that identificational focus, which expresses exhaustive identification and occupies the specifier of a functional projection, must be distinguished in language description from information focus, which conveys new information and involves no syntactic reordering. The properties of the two types of focus are established on the basis of Hungarian and English material. It is argued that the cleft constituent is the realization of…
Wh-movement and specificity
Free Word Order, (Non)configurationality, and Phases
The article argues that a particular implementation of phase theory makes it possible to account for seemingly contradictory facts of Hungarian 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 provide evidence of both configurationality and non…
On The Comparative And Absolute Readings Of Superlatives
An adjunction analysis of quantifiers and adverbials in the Hungarian sentence
Patterns of agreement with coordinate noun phrases in Hungarian
Event Types and Discourse Linking in Hungarian
In every sentence type describing a particular type of event, there is a designated argument functioning as the default information focus. In the case of sentences expressing a change of state, this argument is the theme undergoing the change of state. In the case of sentences describing a change of location, this argument is the terminus, denoting the end-location of the moving theme. In stative sentences indicating the existence or spatial conf…
On the Japanese ‘Double Subject’ Construction
Parasitic Chains
An Answer to Nakajima
An Argument for Movement
Wh-movement and specificity
English Focus Constructions and the Theory of Grammar
Two subject positions in English
L'A. montre que dans la structure-S/PF de la phrase anglaise, seuls les sujets non-specifiques se trouvent en Spec de IP ; les sujets specifiques etant eleves dans le specifieur d'une projection entre IP et CP, appelee RefP. Cette hypothese rend compte de certains faits en anglais : 1) les adverbes de phrase precedent toujours les sujets non-specifiques, mais peuvent suivre les specifiques ; 2) seuls les sujets non-specifiques permettent une extr…
Identificational Focus versus Information Focus
This article argues that identificational focus, which expresses exhaustive identification and occupies the specifier of a functional projection, must be distinguished in language description from information focus, which conveys new information and involves no syntactic reordering. The properties of the two types of focus are established on the basis of Hungarian and English material. It is argued that the cleft constituent is the realization of…
The Dynamics of Focus Structure
Introduction 1. The interpretation of f-structure 2. Reference and coreference 3. Negation, questions and contrast 4. The phonological interpretation of f-structure 5. Scope and R-dependencies 6. I-dependencies in focus-structure Conclusion References Indexes
On The Comparative And Absolute Readings Of Superlatives
Das germanische Frauengrab von R pcelak (Westungarn) aus der zweiten H lfte des 5. Jahrhunderts
The Syntax of Hungarian
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 f…
Verb Clusters
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This similarity is, of course, unexpected since Hungarian is not an Indo-European language like the Germanic language group. Instead it appears that the cl…
Universal Grammar in the Reconstruction of Ancient Languages
Philologists aiming to reconstruct the grammar of ancient languages face the problem that the available data always underdetermine grammar, and in the case of gaps, possible mistakes, and idiosyncracies there are no native speakers to consult. The authors of this volume overcome this difficulty by adopting the methodology that a child uses in the course of language acquisition: they interpret the data they have access to in terms of Universal Gra…
Event Types and Discourse Linking in Hungarian
In every sentence type describing a particular type of event, there is a designated argument functioning as the default information focus. In the case of sentences expressing a change of state, this argument is the theme undergoing the change of state. In the case of sentences describing a change of location, this argument is the terminus, denoting the end-location of the moving theme. In stative sentences indicating the existence or spatial conf…
A pioneering theory of information structure
The paper deals with Samuel Brassai, a 19th-century Hungarian linguist and polyhistor, who was the first in the world to discover the role of information structure in the syntactic organization of the sentence. Preparing to describe Hungarian syntax, he first wanted to establish the universal and typical characteristics of the sentence on the basis of a number of genetically unrelated languages. The universal structure he identified is essentiall…
Topic and focus
The paper explicates the notions of topic, contrastive topic, and focus as used in the analysis of Hungarian. Based on distributional criteria, topic and focus are claimed to represent distinct structural positions in the left periphery of the Hungarian sentence, associated with logical rather than discourse functions. The topic is interpreted as the logical subject of predication. The focus is analyzed as a derived main predicate, specifying the…
Free Word Order, (Non)configurationality, and Phases
The article argues that a particular implementation of phase theory makes it possible to account for seemingly contradictory facts of Hungarian 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 provide evidence of both configurationality and non…
Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces
An adjunction analysis of quantifiers and adverbials in the Hungarian sentence
Patterns of agreement with coordinate noun phrases in Hungarian
From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X
This paper argues that Hungarian underwent a word order change from SOV to Top Foc V X* prior to its documented history beginning in 1192. Proto-Hungarian SOV is reconstructed primarily on the basis of shared constructions of archaic Old Hungarian, and Khanty and Mansi, the sister languages of Hungarian. The most likely scenario of the change from head-final to head-initial was the spreading of right dislocation, and the reanalysis of right dislo…
Preschoolers’ interpretation of doubly quantified sentences
This paper presents the results of two sentence-picture matching experiments investigating how Hungarian preschoolers interpret doubly quantified sentences involving numerical quantifiers. We claim that for Hungarian children, scope interpretation is primarily determined by the structure of the visual representation of the event associated with the given sentence. We found in a series of previous experiments that children’s preferred scope order …
Ways of licensing Hungarian external possessors
This paper examines the status of Hungarian dative noun phrases interpreted as external possessors of a sister constituent. It challenges the widely accepted view put forth by Szabolcsi (1983; 1992, etc.) that external possessors are uniformly assigned a theta role by the possessum, and they are uniformly raised from its maximal projection via A-bar movement. It argues instead that external possessors can also be base-generated outside the projec…
Approaches to Hungarian
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications. The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions, sluicing in relative clauses, generic/habitual readings in clauses containing a free choice item, the argument structure of experiencer verbs in Hunga…
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