Marking Finiteness and Low Peripheries

Bacskai-Atkari, Julia

Marking Finiteness and Low Peripheries

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2018

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Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics / Bartos, Huba; Bánréti, Zoltán; Váradi, Tamás et al. (ed.). - Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2018. - (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory ; 94). - pp. 183-198. - ISBN 978-3-319-90709-3

Abstract

The article takes up on the observations made by Kenesei (1994) the position of the Hungarian interrogative marker -e in the clause and its distribution across clause types. Specifically, there are three crucial points: (i) the marker -e is related to the CP-domain, where clause typing is encoded; (ii) -e is obligatory in embedded clauses and optional in main clauses; (iii) -e is licensed in finite clauses only. I argue that certain clause-typing properties are reflected in the Hungarian clause in a lower functional domain, FP. In particular, finiteness and the interrogative nature of the clause are encoded here, as also indicated by focussing in non-interrogative clauses and by constituent questions, respectively. The marker -e is base-generated in the F head, as opposed to a designated FocP or TP/IP, allowing it to fulfil its clause-typing functions. Base-generation is crucial (as opposed to lowering from C) since it is able to capture the relatedness between -e and finiteness: -e is specified as [fin] and while the FP may be generated to host focussed constituents (including wh-elements) in non-finite clauses, a lexically [fin] head cannot be inserted.

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400 Philology, Linguistics

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Clause typing, Finiteness, Focus, Functional left peripheries, Interrogatives, Polar questions

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BACSKAI-ATKARI, Julia, 2018. Marking Finiteness and Low Peripheries. In: BARTOS, Huba, ed., Zoltán BÁNRÉTI, ed., Tamás VÁRADI, ed. and others. Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics. Cham, Switzerland:Springer International Publishing, pp. 183-198. ISBN 978-3-319-90709-3. Available under: doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-90710-9_12

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@incollection{BacskaiAtkari2018-06-26Marki-46871,
  year={2018},
  doi={10.1007/978-3-319-90710-9_12},
  title={Marking Finiteness and Low Peripheries},
  number={94},
  isbn={978-3-319-90709-3},
  publisher={Springer International Publishing},
  address={Cham, Switzerland},
  series={Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory},
  booktitle={Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics},
  pages={183--198},
  editor={Bartos, Huba and Bánréti, Zoltán and Váradi, Tamás},
  author={Bacskai-Atkari, Julia}
}

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