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Approaches to Hungarian 17: Special issue of the Journal on Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022)
Edited by Tamás Halm, Elizabeth Coppock and Balázs Surányi
[Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:2] 2022
► pp. 215–238

Ordinals, reflexives and unaccusatives

Unification by predication

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This paper presents a unified outlook on the syntax of constructions featuring the reflexive clitic se, with particular emphasis on the uniform morphosyntax of the Hungarian element -ik, treated as an exponent of se both in the verbal domain and in the nominal domain (in ordinal numeral constructions). The analysis is couched in the syntax of predication proposed in Den Dikken (2006), with se represented as the subject of a reverse predication.
Keywords: ordinals, reflexives, unaccusatives, predication, reflexive clitic se , -ik
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2. se in the nominal domain: Ordinals
    • 2.1Dutch
    • 2.2Hungarian
  • 3. se in the verbal domain (i): Reflexive and unaccusative verbs
    • 3.1 -ik and person
    • 3.2 -ik and tense, mood
    • 3.3 -ik and -gAt, -hAt
    • 3.4 -ik and -Ód, -ul
  • 4. se in the verbal domain (ii): Transitive and unergative verbs
    • 4.1 -ik and transitive verbs of ingestion
    • 4.2 -ik and unergative activity verbs
  • 5.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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Published online: 17 November 2022
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https://doi.org/10.1075/jul.00010.dik
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