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Publication details [#14264]

Németh T., Eniko. 2000. Occurence and identification of implicit arguments in Hungarian. Journal of Pragmatics 32 (11) : 1657–1682.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

Like other pro-drop languages, Hungarian allows free occurrence of implicit arguments. Groefsema's semantic/pragmatic account of verb patterning captures only some of the implicit argument occurrences in Hungarian. For example, in Hungarian an argument can also be left implicit if extending its immediate context leads to a relevant interpretation. It is concluded that Hungarian verbs do not vary as to whether they can occur with implicit arguments, but they vary as to in what manner or in what context they can occur with them.