Chapter published in:
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest ConferenceEdited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
[Approaches to Hungarian 16] 2020
► pp. 26–45
Anatomy of Hungarian aspectual particles
Aniko Csirmaz | University of Utah
Benjamin Slade | University of Utah
The paper explores a common core of meaning that various aspectual adverbials
in Hungarian (including megint, ismét
‘again’, még ‘still’) share. It is proposed that there is a
general definition for various aspectual elements related to times and
events. We suggest that some components of those elements, including the
scalar argument and the focus set, can vary – and this results in the
different specific meanings. We assume that meaning is compositional and
also address the complex form mégis ‘(concessive) still’
and other elements that appear to be synonymous with
mégis.
Keywords: aspectual adverbials, focus, repetitives, additive particles, semantics, Hungarian, Hindi, Nepali
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Published online: 08 April 2020
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.16.02csi
https://doi.org/10.1075/atoh.16.02csi
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