{"title":"Possessing a process","authors":"László Palágyi","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.118.138","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.118.138","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the semantics of action nominal constructions (ANCs) in Hungarian. The theoretical assumptions concerning grammatical structures are defined in the framework of usage-based construction grammar. ANCs are investigated in the model of conceptual integration. The input spaces of the ANC network are intransitive and transitive constructions characteristic of nominative-accusative languages on the one hand, and nominal possessive constructions on the other. Agent and patient semantic roles correspond to the formal components of certain possessive constructions. The ergative nature of mapping can be explainedby the symbolic structure and grammaticalization of the possessor in Hungarian. Although the use of dative case is claimed in the literature to be a secondary (marked) way to express the possessor, it proved to be dominant before the reform era (1772–1825) according to our corpus analysis. The motivation behind the mapping between constructions can be captured by a generic space. The constructions share a mental path semantic structure and an inflectional pattern that makes the grounding of a person possible. However, the emergent nature of the meaning of ANC is also reflected in grounding, as instead of the asymmetric reference-point structure of possession, it holistically serves to refer to a person or thing. Compression and passivation are further functions that cannot be simply traced back to possessive or verbal constructions. These cognitive advantages might also motivate the use of ANC.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130642347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ineffability as a linguistic problem","authors":"S. Kuzeev","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.139.149","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.139.149","url":null,"abstract":"The paper deals with the problem of ineffability – intuitively felt unsayability of certain mental contents that are mainly concerned with our sensual domain – and tries to transfer this notion from philosophy into the domain of cognitive linguistics. It demonstrates that in both day-to-day communication and, especially, in the language of literature, ineffability is relativized through various strategies – trivialization, deixis, verbal ellipsis, and figurativity – of which the latter is of utmost importance. The recognition of the role of figurative language in the communication of the ineffable opens up new cognitive horizons both for the notion itself and for the verbal art, which is its principal realm.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128873347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dogs know it, trees wait for it, and the wind snatches it","authors":"G. Simon","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.5.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.5.21","url":null,"abstract":"Verbal constructions of personification (i.e. nonhuman subject + predicate verb primarily used for human beings only) can be considered a key linguistic realization of personification. Although as grammatical metaphors they are rather invisible, the verb’s selection restrictions have a crucial role in expressing conceptual personification. In other words, the nominal form of personification as cross-domain mapping (e.g. WIND IS A THIEF ) is often realized via verb + argument structures (e.g. the wind grabbed the papers out of my hand). In a previous study, the domains of MOVEMENT , CONTROL and MENTAL ACT proved to be the most frequent conceptual categories of verbal personifications in a corpus of 20 th -century Hungarian poems. However, despite these initial findings, we have relatively little knowledge about what are the typical verbal components of personifications in Hungarian on a more general level. \u0000The present paper aims to extend the scope of personification research, adopting corpus linguistic methodology to explore the semantic domains of verbal personification in Hungarian. In a collostructional analysis, I investigate the significant verbal collexemes of noun + verb personifications in the huTenTen12 corpus, using three categories of nominal keywords: animals (dog, horse, fish), plants (tree, fruit, flower) and inanimate natural phenomena (water, air, fire). The study hypothesises that verbs of MENTAL ACT will dominate the first category, MOVEMENT and CONTROL will be prominent among the verbal collexemes of nouns denoting personified natural phenomena, while the semantic domains of verbal personifications will be more heterogeneous in the realm of plants.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128653523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Person-marking constructions in rewritten versions of a poem by Endre Ady","authors":"Ágnes Domonkosi, Á. Kuna","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.38.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.38.54","url":null,"abstract":"Genres are characterized by specific patterns of person-marking constructions including pronouns, morphosyntactic elements and vocatives. The goal of this paper is to verify this hypothesis through an analysis of rewritten versions of a poem. The paper analyses various rewritten versions of Hawk Mating on the Fallen Leaves (Hu. Héja-nász az avaron) by Endre Ady and conducts software-assisted qualitative research on basic devices for person-marking in order to explore the features of person-marking constructions in the categories of “bad” poetry, 1 pop song lyrics, rap and prose (Domonkosi–Kuna 2018a). The analysis reveals that in speakers’ everyday, intuitive knowledge of genres, schemas related to various opportunities for person-marking play a fundamental role. This is suggested by the fact that the rewriting of the poem, its transposition into new genres went hand in hand with changes in the choice of person-marking constructions.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125061359","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject and subiectum","authors":"Gábor Tolcsvai Nagy","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.85.101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.85.101","url":null,"abstract":"The paper discusses the relationship between subject and subiectum in the theoretical and methodological framework of cognitive grammar and poetics, in literary texts. The grammatical subject is a grammatical function, placing a thing, i.e., a participant in the focus of attention within the scene expressed in the sentence, and functioning as a semantic starting point. The grammatical subject and the subiectum elaborated in the text are separated from each other in specific cases, and in the process of partition, the two are connectedagain in various ways. In a literary work, the subiectum is not formed through the direct elaboration of a grammatical subject, but by meeting different ways of the subiectum’s self-creation and self-reference, along the intersubjective actions of the speaker and the recipient, in the text and in the discourse space. The paper presents this relationship, among others, in the poetic processes of separating the syntactic subject and the lyrical speaking subiectum, by self-addressing, depersonalization, subjectification, and subject extension.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"282 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116050051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Annotation of person marking constructions in the Corpus of Hungarian Lyrical Poetry","authors":"Péter Horváth, G. Simon, Szilárd Tátrai","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.22.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.22.37","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the annotation scheme for the manual annotation of the Corpus of Hungarian Lyrical Poetry. The corpus will consist of 400-600 annotated texts, grouped into four sub-corpora: 20th century lyrical texts from the canon of Hungarian public education, contemporary lyrical texts, slam poetry texts, and song lyrics. The manual annotation is based on automatically generated and manually checked annotations of lemmas, parts of speech and morphosyntactic features. The manual annotation of syntactic properties proposed in the annotation scheme follows a dependency analysis approach and allows us to obtain quantitative data on person marking constructions in Hungarian lyrical texts. Besides the annotation of verb-dependent relations, the paper also presents the annotation of specific phenomena such as auxiliary verbs, vocatives, elliptical structures, and nominal predicates. The annotation scheme was tested using a test corpus of 16 texts. We also provide some examples of the types of quantitative data that can be extracted from the annotated corpus.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117131565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Constructions of person marking and poetic structures in self-addressing poems","authors":"József Pethő, Tamás Tukacs","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.55.70","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.55.70","url":null,"abstract":"The paper attempts to approach and interpret the category of self-addressing poems from new perspectives. It chiefly focuses on the constructions of person marking and the poetic structures resulting from their various realizations, relying on the implicit assumptions and recent results of literary theory, cognitive poetics and stylistics. In the analyses, poems by Vörösmarty, Arany and Babits figure prominently but other texts are also touched upon. From the various results it is worth highlighting that several concepts and issues that are essential for the model of self-addressing poems, such as the relationship between the addressee and the addresser, the exhortation, the personal crisis (a contrast between role and personality), are given new interpretations. The analyses demonstrate that, contrary to the apparent ‘simplicity’ and homogeneity of the selfaddressing poetic pattern, this kind of poem occurs in extremely varied poetic structures in the history of lyrical poetry.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131158793","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Address, self-address","authors":"Zoltán Kulcsár-Szabó","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.71.84","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.71.84","url":null,"abstract":"The paper takes as its starting point the premise that address can be understood as a speech act. It asks wherein lies the performative outcome and power of address and self-address, in particular with regard to the effect of the address on the addressee. The problem is put in a specific light by the lyrical figure of self-addressing, which the paper examines in the context of a close reading of Attila József's poem Tudod, hogy nincs bocsánat (Mercy Denied Forever, transl. by Zs. Ozsváth and F. Turner), also commenting on Béla G. Németh’s classical essay on self-addressing. Throughout the analysis, an important role is given to the ambivalent relations of person marking in the poem and to the ethical dilemmas implied in the figure of self-address. The paper also discusses those aspects of performative language (above all the speech act of the promise) that play a central role in the articulation of self-address. It seeks to interpret the ethical problems they reveal, especially in the closing section of the poem, within the philosophical framework provided byDerridian deconstructivism. The arguments drawn here help to make addressability understood as one of the guarantees of being a person the object of critical reflection.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125507683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personalization is in the details","authors":"L. Szabó","doi":"10.54888/slh.2022.34.102.117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2022.34.102.117","url":null,"abstract":"The process of political personalization (namely, politicians taking the center stage rather than political collectives) has been observed from many perspectives by scholars of political communication. A wide range of research measured whether politics was becoming personalized; however, these studies were largely data-driven. In this paper, I argue that in order to gain a fuller understanding of personalized politics, more nuanced analyses need to be conducted, as the detailed interpretation of political communication reveals aspects of political personalization which data-based approaches may overlook. The relevance of qualitative analysis in terms of the personalization of politics is interpreted through the use of first-person singular and plural pronouns in Ronald Reagan’s 1984 and Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential nomination acceptance speeches. The results show that despite a similar level of personalization in quantitative terms in the two speeches, a closer analysis of the texts reveals differences in terms of the semantic categories represented by first-person pronouns.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114041553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On some Hungarian means of expression of passive contents","authors":"Bernadett Modrián-Horváth","doi":"10.54888/slh.2021.33.18.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54888/slh.2021.33.18.37","url":null,"abstract":"Hungarian is widely considered as a language without any productive morphological passive, while some linguists insist on the idea of a Hungarian analytical stative passive. This paper examines the use of genuine morphosyntactic word formation means and alternatives which express passive contents, focusing mainly on the clause level. According to the mainstream definition of passive in cognitive linguistics, passive is defined as a reversal of the focal participants (trajector and landmark). After an overview of the most important functions of the usage of passive, the paper discusses Hungarian means of expression for passive content andpassive-equivalents known and described in the Hungarian literature. \u0000The theoretical part is followed by the presentation of an empirical survey concerning the means of expression of passive in Hungarian. The first analysis investigates the constructions expressing passive contents in a corpus consisting of scientific texts in an explorative way. Afterwards, the investigation of the dia-chronic development of the construction Verb + -va/-ve + lenni/van in several corpora is presented, providing evidence that this construction is more and more productive in the sense of a stative passive. Finally, an analysis of derivations with the inherently middle suffix -ódik/-ődik shows that the use of this construction as a means of expression for passive contents is (still) quite restricted.","PeriodicalId":104358,"journal":{"name":"Studia Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121122497","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}