Hungarian spatial PPs

Abstract

Hungarian spatial adpositional phrases exhibit very similar properties to those in other languages in that they can denote places and paths, and their structural ordering is such that path-denoting postpositions are outside place-denoting ones. One type of postpositional elements (the ‘dressed’ Ps) share various syntactic propertiesmwith oblique case suffixes, while members of the other group of post positions (‘naked’ Ps) are more like particles. All of these, however, are generated in an extended PP-structure with designated positions for place, path and direction.

The Emergence of Axial Parts

“…Elaborate local case systems can usually be decomposed into two or more parts, with an inner part expressing basic Place distinctions (such as 'on' and 'in') and an outer part expressing Path distinctions (goal or 'to,' source or 'from,' and basic location, here glossed as 'loc'); see Hegedűs (2006) for discussion of the Hungarian system. The related Finnish system can be decomposed as follows, where -C is an underspecified consonant (assimilating to the preceding consonant), -A an underspecified low vowel (participating in vowel harmony): (18) Finnish (Karlsson 1977)…”

Syntax of Hungarian

“…Kiss (1999, Spencer (2008) and Trommer (2008), for instance, consider only case-like Ps to be true Ps. Here we follow Marácz (1984Marácz ( , 1986Marácz ( , 1989; Kenesei et al (1998), Payne and Chisarik (2000); Kádár (2009), Dékány (2011) and Hegedűs (2006Hegedűs ( , 2013, among others, in treating case-assigning Ps as genuine postpositions.…”

“…(115) én-vel-em szemben The two types of postpositions, including their similarities and differences, have been discussed in detail in Marácz (1984Marácz ( , 1986Marácz ( , 1989 Chapter 8), Kenesei (1992: 581ff), Kenesei et al (1998: 86ff), É. Kiss (1999), Hegedűs (2006), Asbury (2008) and Dékány (2011), among others. In Section 2.2.2.2 we turn to the distribution of case-like Ps in detail.…”

“…The so-called PP-with-DP construction is a clause type used to identify directional PPs (Hegedűs 2006). Verbal particles can be used as the sole (214a) or the first element (214b) in the PPwith-DP construction, showing that they are (parts of) PPs (see also Horvath 1978).…”

“…Postpositions were later analyzed in É. Kiss (2002 Chapter 8), Hegedűs (2006), Laczkó (2011), Rákosi (2012b). That postpositions and case suffixes are instantiations of the same category P is discussed in detail in Bartos (1999), Asbury et al (2007), Spencer (2008), Trommer (2008.…”