Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány
[Approaches to Hungarian, 14] 2015. v, 296 pp.
Éva Dékány
List of John Benjamins publications for which Éva Dékány plays a role.
Title
Subjects Generative linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics | Uralic languages
Articles
2023 The morphosyntax of the Hungarian sociative and dissociative suffixes Approaches to Hungarian 18: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023), Farkas, Donka F., Gábor Alberti and Balázs Surányi (eds.), pp. 74–95 | Article
This paper examines the morphosyntax of (dis)sociative ‘with(out)’, with particular reference to the facts of Hungarian but with an eye towards universality. The morphological analysis of -stul/stül ‘with’ and -talanul/telenül ‘without’ unpacks these complex forms, utilizing a variety of… read more
2017 Chapter 3. Two positions for verbal modifiers: Evidence from derived particle verbs Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference, Hulst, Harry van der and Anikó Lipták (eds.), pp. 65–94 | Chapter
This paper brings into question recent proposals that all types of Hungarian verbal modifiers are merged in the complement zone of the verb, and argues that certain verbal particles and resultatives are merged as specifiers in the extended verb phrase. The empirical focus of the paper is… read more
2015 Word order variation in Hungarian PPs Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference, Kiss, Katalin É., Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány (eds.), pp. 95–120 | Article
This paper proposes a syntactic account of the variation Hungarian case assigning adpositions exhibit in their word order and extraction properties. The empirical generalization is that if a P allows the prepositional word order then it can also be stranded by its complement and it also has a… read more
2014 Hungarian is a classifier language Word Classes: Nature, typology and representations, Simone, Raffaele and Francesca Masini (eds.), pp. 141–160 | Article
We present an overview of classifiers, a subgroup of what Simone & Masini (this volume) call Light Nouns. Three major types have been distinguished: group, sortal and mensural classifiers. Focusing on group and sortal classifiers, we establish a battery of tests which diagnose the membership in the… read more