Predicate fronting and dative case in Hungarian

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ID19494868
AuthorsBarbara Ürögdi (ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume53
Issue3
Pages291-332
Publication date2006-09-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Linguistica Hungarica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1216-8076 • E-ISSN: 1588-2624
PublisherAkademiai Kiado Zrt. (PUBLISHER • HU)
DOI10.1556/aling.53.2006.3.3
OpenAlexW1964393874
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited4

In this paper I provide a unified analysis of predicate clefts and a large class of secondary predicates in Hungarian. These constructions involve the occurrence of a predicate that is not immediately dominated by tense, which results in a striking similarity: in both, a verbal predicate takes the form of an infinitive, while nominal/adjectival predicates appear as dative. I argue that both the infinitive and the dative surface form indicate that the predicate's head is spelled out in a functional projection (commonly referred to as PredP or AspP) just outside the predicate's lexical projection, which is evidenced, among other facts, by phrase-internal modification patterns. Therefore, the structure of predication, including the position of modifiers, is claimed to be uniform, regardless of the lexical category of the predicate itself (V, A or N). This result is strongly in line with research that views datives as predicates in general, and structural case on nominals as a reflex of a functional projection in the tense-aspect domain

Dative case · Infinitive · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Oblique case · Verb · Computer Science · Mathematics · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

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