Topic, Focus and Configurationality

Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984

Editors

Werner Abraham

Sjaak de Meij

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Some fundamental questions regarding sentence structure in linguistics concern whether all languages, at some level of abstraction, have the same structure, and what are the basic categories with which to describe sentence structure. The contributors of this volume are specialized in two quite different languages: Hungarian and German. Of the German papers three are mainly about focus (Abraham, Jacobs, and Stechow-Uhman), whereas the remaining ones (Haider and Scherpenisse) are mainly about V-second. The Hungarian papers are all about focus, of which those of Kálman, Kiefer, Marácz, and De Mey-Marácz are about focussing in the stricter sense. Hunyadi, Kenesei and É. Kiss focus on the pre-verbal area in general and the interpretation of operators in Hungarian in particular. The remaining papers (Horvath, Komlósy, and Szabolczi) are on the position of the PRE-V, the position immediately after the finite verb.

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 4] 1986. v, 349 pp.

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Table of Contents

Introduction Werner Abraham, Laci Marácz, Sjaak de Mey and Wim Scherpenisse	1
Word Order in the Middle Field of the German Sentence Werner Abraham	15
Configurationality in Disguise: Word Order and the V-2 Property Hubert Haider	39
Remarks on the Configurationality-Issue Julia Horvath	65
The Expression of Logical Scope in Hungarian László Hunyadi	89
The Syntax of Focus and Adverbials in German Joachim Jacobs	103
Hocus, Focus, and Verb Types in Hungarian Infinitive Constructions László Kálmán, Gabor Proszeky, Ádam Nádasky and C. György Kalman	129
On the Logic of Word Order in Hungarian István Kenesei	143
Epistemic Possibility and Focus Ferenc Kiefer	161
The Order and Scope of Operators in the Hungarian Sentence Katalin É. Kiss	181
Focussing on Focus in Hungarian András Komlósy	215
Dressed or Naked: the Case of the PP in Hungarian László Marácz	227
On Question Sentences in Hungarian Sjaak de Mey and László Marácz	253
Some Remarks on Focus Projection Arnim von Stechow and Susanne Uhmann	295
From the Definiteness Effect to Lexical Integrity Anna Szabolcsi	321
Contributors to this volume	349

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Jacobs, Joachim

1992. In Informationsstruktur und Grammatik, ► pp. 220 ff.

Kiss, Katalin É.

2002. In The Syntax of Hungarian,

Marácz, László

1988. Review of Horvath (1985): Focus in the theory of grammar and the syntax of Hungarian. Studies in Language 12:1 ► pp. 199 ff.

Moravcsik, Edith A.

1990. Review of Kiss (1987): Configurationality in syntax. Studies in Language 14:1 ► pp. 234 ff.

Schmidt, Stephan

1994. In Was determiniert Wortstellungsvariation?, ► pp. 219 ff.

Surányi, Balázs

2009. Verbal particles inside and outsidevP. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 56:2-3 ► pp. 201 ff.

Tuller, Laurice

1992. The syntax of postverbal focus constructions in Chadic. Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 10:2 ► pp. 303 ff.

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Subjects

Linguistics

Syntax

Semantics

Theoretical linguistics

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

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