Free Choice and Aspect in Hungarian

Halm, Tamás

doi:10.1075/atoh.14.07hal

Cited by 4 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 15 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Without reduplication, the above sentences would refer to a single event, and with reduplication they refer to a series of events. The semantic contribution of reduplication is referred to as iterative/erratic aspect or frequentative aspect (Kiefer 2006), habitual-iterative meaning (Halm 2015) or the expression of an intermittent repeated action (Ackerman 2003). This is in line with observations in the typological literature.…”

Section: Introduction To Particle Reduplicationmentioning

confidence: 59%

“…We will indicate this ingredient of meaning in the English translations by adding an adjunct such as from time to time when there is no overt adverb in the sentence denoting frequency of occurrence. As Halm (2015) mentions, overt adverbs of regular frequency, such as rendszeresen 'regularly', can occur in sentences with reduplicated particles (as in 2a). Due to the component of event iteration, the predicate undergoing particle reduplication must express dynamic events and cannot denote a state (*meg-meg felel PRF-PRF comply; *összeössze fér PRT-PRT go well (with)), an irreversible change of state (*meg-meg öregszik PRF-PRF get.old, *el-el butul AWAY-AWAY get.dumb) or an excessive deed (*agyon-agyon hajszol TO.DEATH-TO.DEATH rush (someone)).…”

Section: Introduction To Particle Reduplicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling

Lipták

Saab

2019

Acta Linguistica Academica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper provides a morphosyntactic account of particle reduplication in Hungarian, a case of reduplication whose function is to express repetition of events. The most conspicuous property of this process is that it can only apply when the particle is strictly left adjacent to an overt verb. We develop an analysis in terms of a syntactic process that yields a string of doubled particles that do not form a constituent, following the insight of Piñon (1991), and we propose that reduplication targets subwords and derives the facts via a local doubling process.

show abstract

Section: Introduction To Particle Reduplicationmentioning

confidence: 59%

Section: Introduction To Particle Reduplicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling

Lipták

Saab

2019

Acta Linguistica Academica

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Verbal particles can be reduplicated (J. Soltész 1959, Piñón 1991, Kiefer 1995, Halm 2015; this expresses irregular iteration of the event (244). Observe that this is a case of full reduplication: with bisyllabic particles both syllables take part in the process.…”

Section: A Reduplicationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Syntax of Hungarian

Kiss¹,

Hegedűs²

2021

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist.

show abstract

“…Concerning Hungarian, Halm (2013;2015;2016a;b) examined the behaviour of FCIs across a wide range of environments and constructions, including the standard tests of quantificational force (almost-modification, modification by exceptive phrase, donkey anaphora, predicative use, incorporation and split readings with modals) and various structural positions (identificational focus, contrastive topic). The results corroborate the analysis of FCIs in Hungarian as dependent indefinites (cf.…”

Section: Free Choice Items Cross-linguistically and In Hungarianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hungarian, unlike some other languages, does not have separate lexical forms for these different kinds of FCIs: rather, the reading the FCI receives dependends on prosodic and syntactic fac-tors: that is, a lexical item such as bárki 'anyone' can be interpreted as a full-set FCI (anyone), a indifference-type subset FCI (just anyone) or an ignorance-type FCI (wh-ever) (for details, cf. Halm 2013;2016a).…”

Section: Free Choice Items Cross-linguistically and In Hungarianmentioning

confidence: 99%

The semantics of weak imperatives revisited: Evidence from free-choice item licensing

Halm

2019

Acta Linguistica Academica

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This paper provides a new analysis for the semantics and pragmatics of weak (permission/ acquiescence) imperatives. In a significant modification to the To-Do-List (or minimal semantics -strong pragmatic) theory of imperatives (Portner 2007;von Fintel & Iatridou 2017), I argue that in weak imperatives, the utterance of the imperative is directed not at the To-Do-List of the addressee, but at a separate list which contains the set of possible courses of action contemplated by the addressee (which I term the List of Actions Under Consideration by the addressee). I support this claim by a new detailed analysis of free-choice item licensing in imperatives (based on the dependent indefinite analysis of FCIs put forth by Giannakidou 2001). I also show how my model correctly predicts that strong imperatives are felicitous out of the blue whereas weak imperatives need the prejacent to be already part of the context. It is also pointed out how this new approach helps us cut through the familiar controversy of whether weak imperatives can create obligations. Finally, I argue that the strong vs. weak imperative distinction is orthogonal to the degree of speaker endorsement (pace von Fintel & Iatridou 2017): this claim is also supported by a new look at data from Rhaetoromance (Poletto & Zanuttini 2003), where the strong vs. weak imperative distinction is encoded overtly on the morphosyntactic level in a binary fashion.

show abstract

Free Choice and Aspect in Hungarian

Cited by 4 publications

References 15 publications

Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling

Hungarian particle reduplication as local doubling

Syntax of Hungarian

The semantics of weak imperatives revisited: Evidence from free-choice item licensing

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About