Verb Clusters

A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch

Editors

Katalin É. Kiss | Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Henk van Riemsdijk | Tilburg University

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Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This similarity is, of course, unexpected since Hungarian is not an Indo-European language like the Germanic language group. Instead it appears that the clustering, inversion and roll-up patterns found may constitute an areal feature. This book presents the relevant language data in considerable detail, taking into account also the variation observed, for example, among dialects. But it also discusses the various analytical approaches that can be brought to bear on this set of phenomena. In particular, there are various hypotheses as to what is the underlying driving force behind cluster formation: stress patterns, aspectual features, morpho- syntactic constraints? And the analytical approaches are closely linked to a number of questions that are at the core of current syntactic theorizing: does head movement exist or should all apparent verb displacement be reduced to remnant movement, are morphology and syntax really just different sides of the same coin?

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/la.69

Table of Contents

Introduction

Verb clusters: Some basic notions

Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk | pp. 1–40

West Germanic verb clusters: The empirical domain

Susi Wurmbrand | pp. 43–85

Hungarian verb clusters — Results of a questionnaire survey

Kriszta Szendröi and Ildikó Tóth | pp. 87–119

Theories

Clustering theories

Jonathan David Bobaljik | pp. 121–145

“Roll-up” structures and morphological words

Michael Brody | pp. 147–171

The structure of clusters

Edwin Williams | pp. 173–201

A stress-based approach to climbing

Kriszta Szendröi | pp. 205–223

Particles and phonologically defective predicates

Anikó Csirmaz | pp. 225–252

Aspect

Climbing for aspect: with no rucksack

Gábor Alberti | pp. 253–289

The Hungarian verbal complex: An alternative approach

Csaba Olsvay | pp. 291–333

VO / OV

Parallel strategies of verbal complex formation in Hungarian and West-Germanic?

Katalin É. Kiss | pp. 335–358

Do preverbs climb?

Peter Ackema | pp. 359–393

Morphology

Verbal complexes and morphosyntactic merger

Huba Bartos | pp. 395–415

Infinitival complements of modals in Hungarian and in German

Ildikó Tóth | pp. 417–443

Agreement and ‘clause union’

Marcel den Dikken | pp. 445–498

List of contributors

“The volume constitutes an important contribution to the understanding of verb clusters and related phenomena, and serves to familiarize the reader with the state of the art with respect to the empirical evidence and the main theoretical issues.”

Michael Wagner, MIT, on Linguist List 16.2747 , 2005

“This volume is a highly commendable collection of papers, and not just for its coverage of a core area of Hungarian syntax. It can be recommended to any syntactician with interests in the grammar of infinitival constructions in particular, and in the crosslinguitsic parameterization of clause structure in general.”

Huber Haider, University of Salzburg, in Language 83:3, 2007

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2010. The auxiliary + infinitive construction in Hungarian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 57:1 ► pp. 143 ff.

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