Type of Publication: | Contribution to a conference collection |
Publication status: | Published |
Author: | Bacskai-Atkari, Julia |
Year of publication: | 2017 |
Conference: | International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH 2015), May 22, 2015 - May 23, 2015, Leiden |
Published in: | Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference / van der Hulst, Harry; Lipták, Anikó (ed.). - Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2017. - (Approaches to Hungarian ; 15). - pp. 35-63. - ISSN 1878-7916. - ISBN 978-90-272-0485-1 |
DOI (citable link): | https://dx.doi.org/10.1075/atoh.15.02bac |
Summary: |
This paper presents a contrastive analysis of comparative degree complements in Germanic (English, German) and Hungarian, focussing on two particular types of constructions that are potentially ambiguous in isolation. I argue that Hungarian has both clausal and phrasal comparatives. In clausal comparatives, the morphological case of the single remnant always corresponds to its underlying function (subject or object), hence ambiguities arise only if both interpretations involve subjects, but there are no subject/object ambiguities. This differs from Germanic, where subject/object ambiguities arise due to case syncretism, and where subjects of small clauses can be marked by the accusative case. In Hungarian phrasal comparatives, case distinction does not play a role, and the interpretation is governed by semantic rules.
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Subject (DDC): | 400 Philology, Linguistics |
Keywords: | case assignment, comparative subclause, clausal comparative, ambiguity, phrasal comparative, small clause, tense projection, degree semantics, ellipsis |
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BACSKAI-ATKARI, Julia, 2017. Structural ambiguity and case assignment in Hungarian clausal and phrasal comparatives. International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH 2015). Leiden, May 22, 2015 - May 23, 2015. In: VAN DER HULST, Harry, ed., Anikó LIPTÁK, ed.. Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference. Amsterdam:John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 35-63. ISSN 1878-7916. ISBN 978-90-272-0485-1. Available under: doi: 10.1075/atoh.15.02bac
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