On the syntax-prosody mapping in Hungarian comparatives

Abstract

The aim of the present paper is to provide an adequate description of the syntax–prosody mapping in Hungarian comparative subclauses, which may account for certain differences observed in the position of the quantified expression. As will be shown, Hungarian has two quantifier operators, amilyen ‘how’ and amennyire ‘how much’ that may appear together with a lexical AP; however, the latter but not the former may be separated from the AP. I will argue that this contrast has important consequences in terms of information structure too: while in the case of amilyen GIVEN and F-marked APs behave in the same way, with amennyire there are also differenceswith respect to the position of the AP. This variation will be shown to be derivable from general rules of syntax–prosody mapping that apply in Hungarian comparative subclauses.