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This paper is concerned with repetitive adverbials in Hungarian. It presents an overview of the different Hungarian equivalents of again, addressing their properties and their relevance. One of the goals of this paper is descriptive; it offers a systematic description of Hungarian repetitives. In addition, it provides evidence for two major claims. First, meaning differences (including the restitutive -repetitive ambiguity) are due to structural rather than lexical differences. Second, repetitives do not form a homogeneous set. The possible scope positions and in some cases, the denotation, of repetitive adverbials differs. This difference, in general, cannot be predicted from the morphological makeup of the repetitives, so an independent specification of the unexpected properties is necessary.

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Aniko Csirmaz MIT, 2001 * I would like to acknowledge the help of the organizers and participants of the workshops on verbal clusters within the Dutch-Hungarian Study Center (under the Third Memorandum of Understanding of NIAS), and especially that of Huba Bartos, Michael Brody, Katalin É. Kiss, and Csaba Olsvay. 1 In this paper I will only discuss those auxiliaries that trigger restructuring in Germanic and in Hungarian (particle climbing or rollup). Thus under the term auxiliary I only include these kinds of verbs in the paper, and the descriptions are not meant to hold for all auxiliaries within the language under discussion. For a description and classification of auxiliaries, the reader is referred to Kálmán et al. 1989.

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Following an overview of time intervals in the clause, this chapter tackles the appropriate characterization of divisibility, the requirement of durative adverbs which can measure any of these times. The flexible view of temporal modification offers a natural account of a variety of novel phenomena and a coherent view of earlier accounts of durative modification.