Focused Topics in Hungarian
Reconsidering the Pragmatic Relevance of the Structural Focus Position1
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21398733 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zsuzsanna Gécseg (0000-0003-2380-2068, Department of French Studies University of Szeged 6722 Szeged Egyetem u. 2. Hungary, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 740-774 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Studia Linguistica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0039-3193 • E-ISSN: 1467-9582 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/stul.12142 |
| OpenAlex | W3028822621 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 47 |
In this paper, a specific syntactic construction of Hungarian is investigated in which the preverbal constituent filling the structural Focus position functions as the topic of the sentence on the pragmatic level. Focused topic constructions are commonly used in Hungarian, especially in copular sentences. The core motivation of their use is the following: the placement of the topic into Focus position gives rise to the implicature that the topic referent is the only referent the predicate of the sentence holds for. This complex topicalization strategy can be accounted for by means of an alternative‐based concept of focus in the spirit of Rooth (1992), É. Kiss (1998) and Krifka (2008): the focusing of the aboutness topic indicates the presence of potential alternatives, and the referent of the topical expression placed into the structural Focus position functions as an exhaustive topic
Attributive · Focus (optics) · Implicature · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Predicate (mathematical logic) · Referent · Sentence · Topicalization · Computer Science · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Givenness, Contrastiveness, Definiteness, Subjects, Topics, and Point of View
Formal methods in the study of Language
Copular Clauses
Studies on Copular Sentences, Clefts and Pseudo-Clefts
The Raising of Predicates
Universals of topic-comment structure
Types of topics in German and Italian
The Oxford Handbook of Information Structure
Information Structure and Sentence Form
Two be or not two be?
Properties of It -Cleft Presupposition
Syntax and Semantics of It-Clefts
A new look at information structure in Hungarian
The Dynamics of Focus Structure
Nonverbal Sentences and Degrees of Definiteness in Hungarian
Pragmatics and Linguistics
Basic notions of information structure
A theory of focus interpretation
The pragmatics of it-clefts and WH-clefts
The dimensions of topiccomment
Syntactic constraints on discourse structure
Shared knowledge' and topicality
The origins of the informative-presupposition it-cleft
Predication and Equation
A Comparison of Wh-Clefts and it-Clefts in Discourse
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |