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Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden ConferenceEdited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták
[Approaches to Hungarian 15] 2017
► pp. 1–33
Internal-scope taking arguments in the information structure of deverbal nominals in Hungarian
Gábor Alberti | University of Pécs
Veronika Szabó | University of Pécs
The paper claims that the syntax of Hungarian is so extremely transparent from a pragmasemantic point of view that certain (complex-event-related) deverbal nominal constructions can have an internal information structure consisting of internal-scope taking dependents. The scope-semantic source of such an internal scope is an embedded verbal construction complemented by the nominalizer. What makes it possible for an internal information structure to be hosted is (the independent factor) that the Hungarian noun-phrase structure is (even) more flexible than was hypothesized earlier: so flexible that it can host as complex pragmasemantic hierarchies as verbal structures can. In this way, Hungarian makes it possible to express explicitly, by word order, all potential scope orders not only in verbal constructions, but even within noun phrases. We thus argue for the integration of the carthographic Split-DP (or Clausal-DP) Hypothesis into the Hungarian traditions via inserting operator layers in the Hungarian noun-phrase structure both above and below the DP-layer.
Keywords: deverbal nominal constructions, noun-phrase-internal scope, hybrid scope, Clausal-DP Hypothesis
Published online: 24 August 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.15.01alb
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.15.01alb
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