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Case and Grammatical Relations: Studies in honor of Bernard ComrieEdited by Greville G. Corbett and Michael Noonan
[Typological Studies in Language 81] 2008
► pp. 35–56
Does Hungarian have a case system?
Andrew Spencer | University of Essex
I argue that case markers in Hungarian are best thought of as ‘fused postpositions’. There is no need to set up a separate syntactic or morphological [Case] attribute as such. Rather, we just need a morphological principle stating that nominals (including pronouns) have a special form, the traditional case form. In this respect Hungarian is crucially different from languages such as Latin (which requires both a morphological and a syntactic [Case] feature) or Finnish (which requires at least a syntactic [Case] feature). I discuss certain typological issues arising from this analysis, arguing that when grammarians refer to Hungarian ‘cases’, they are really referring to a rather more general notion of ‘canonical grammatical function markers on dependents’.
Published online: 19 December 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.81.02doe
https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.81.02doe
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