Topic, Focus and Configurationality
Papers from the 6th Groningen Grammar Talks, Groningen, 1984
Editors
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.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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IntroductionWerner Abraham, Laci Marácz, Sjaak de Mey and Wim Scherpenisse | p. 1
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Word Order in the Middle Field of the German SentenceWerner Abraham | p. 15
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Configurationality in Disguise: Word Order and the V-2 PropertyHubert Haider | p. 39
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Remarks on the Configurationality-IssueJulia Horvath | p. 65
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The Expression of Logical Scope in HungarianLászló Hunyadi | p. 89
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The Syntax of Focus and Adverbials in GermanJoachim Jacobs | p. 103
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Hocus, Focus, and Verb Types in Hungarian Infinitive ConstructionsLászló Kálmán, Gabor Proszeky, Ádam Nádasky and C. György Kalman | p. 129
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On the Logic of Word Order in HungarianIstván Kenesei | p. 143
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Epistemic Possibility and FocusFerenc Kiefer | p. 161
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The Order and Scope of Operators in the Hungarian SentenceKatalin É. Kiss | p. 181
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Focussing on Focus in HungarianAndrás Komlósy | p. 215
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Dressed or Naked: the Case of the PP in HungarianLászló Marácz | p. 227
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On Question Sentences in HungarianSjaak de Mey and László Marácz | p. 253
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Some Remarks on Focus ProjectionArnim von Stechow and Susanne Uhmann | p. 295
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From the Definiteness Effect to Lexical IntegrityAnna Szabolcsi | p. 321
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Contributors to this volume | p. 349
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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.
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Tuller, Laurice
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