{"title":"Comments on Uralic historical phonology","authors":"L. Honti","doi":"10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.1","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, the author poses three questions of historical phonology and gives explanations that are meant to be rational: 1. With respect to the Hungarian reflexes of Proto-Uralic/Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Ugric word initial *p, *t, and *k, two reasons are suggested for the dual reflexes *p > H f ∼ b and *t > H t ∼ d: (a) the word internal (primary or secondary) voiced consonant triggered the assimilation (that is, voicing) of the initial consonant; (b) subsequently, due to an effort to eliminate homonymy, the closest congener of the initial consonant (that is, its voiced counterpart) replaced the original voiceless stop. It is also discussed why *k does not similarly have dual reflexes (k ∼ g) in Hungarian. 2. Concerning the phonological reality of Proto-Uralic/Proto-Finno-Ugric/Proto-Ugric *δ and *δ, as well as the potential etymological correspondence of s-initial Finnic words with t-initial words of the other Uralic languages, it is proposed that *∧ and *∧ should be assumed rather than *δ and *δ,...","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"60 1","pages":"1-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077625","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":"Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen (eds.): Approaches to Hungarian, Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference","authors":"Louise Mycock","doi":"10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"60 1","pages":"107-121"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077669","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":"Null and cognate objects and changes in (in)transitivity: Evidence from the history of English","authors":"N. Lavidas","doi":"10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the historical development of null objects (e.g., *He took the loaf and held O between his hands) and cognate objects (e.g., He sang a song) in English. We will demonstrate that English lost definite/referential (and indefinite) null objects (only generic null objects are possible in present-day English, e.g., They have the ability to impress and delight O) but extended the range of cognate objects (which is now also possible with activity/event nouns, e.g., He smiled a disarming smile). Cross-linguistic diachronic comparison (using data from the history of the Greek language) reveals that the historical development described is language-specific and that both directions of change (loss or rise) of null and cognate objects are possible. We will test the hypothesis that there is a connection between the availability of such (de)transitivization processes and changes that affect the syntactic representation of aspectual distinctions. More precisely, we will examine the hypothesis that in...","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"60 1","pages":"69-106"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.60.2013.1.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077633","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":"Pragmatic particles indicating expectation—The case of Persze","authors":"I. Vaskó","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to introduce the Hungarian pragmatic marker persze through its versatile function in the language and to collect evidence that it can also occur as a marker of epistemic modality. Persze is particularly salient in oral communication, where it relates its host unit to the previous utterance and has a variable scope ranging from a single lexical item to a whole paragraph. It preserved its core meaning in all of its occurrences, namely pinpointing the self-evidence of the truth of the proposition it stands with and encodes a specific epistemic attitude of the speaker to the proposition expressed by the clause in which persze appears.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"56 1","pages":"465-486"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.4","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077612","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":"Some observations on the Hungarian adverbial particle majd","authors":"F. Kiefer","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.2","url":null,"abstract":"The Hungarian particle majd has both a descriptive and an expressive meaning. Semantically it expresses futurity; at the same time it may also carry various pragmatic meanings, of which the most salient is the delaying function. The referential function of majd is foregrounded if it is the only element in the sentence with temporal meaning. It will be shown that there is also a parasitic use of majd in which case it can be omitted without loss of meaning. In some other cases the particle is used to reinforce the illocutionary meaning of the utterance.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"427-438"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077734","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":"The Hungarian imperative particle hadd","authors":"Attila Péteri","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.3","url":null,"abstract":"This study is devoted to the Hungarian sentence mood particle hadd, which developed into a particle from the imperatival form of the verb hagy ‘let’. It primarily functions in non-addressee-oriented directives, i.e., it marks speech acts meant by the speaker to instigate actions of the speaker him- or herself or of third parties rather than actions of the interlocutor. The interlocutor is meant to play a—mediating, supporting, or tolerating—“secondary” role in this. Based on corpus research, the syntax and pragmatics of the particle hadd will be illustrated. The syntactic position of hadd differs from that of modal particles in being considerably more fixed. Concerning its pragmatic function, uses leading away from the function of a particle indicating sentence mood can be discerned. Similar developments can be illustrated for other European languages. In some languages (e.g., the Slavic languages), the word meaning ‘let’ develops into a particle, in other languages it turns into an auxiliary verb.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"439-463"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077773","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":"Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks","authors":"Hans-Martin Gärtner, Beáta Gyuris","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.1","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of these introductory remarks is to complement the following case studies by Ferenc Kiefer on majd ‘later (on), sooner or later’, Attila Peteri on hadd ‘let’, and Ildiko Vasko on persze ‘of course’. What we will do is sketch a number of what we consider promising theoretical developments that have a bearing on the issues raised in these studies. In a section addressing issues of form (section 2), we discuss “cartographic” approaches to adverb(ial) hierarchies and the clausal “left periphery”, as well as pragmatic markers within clause types. In a section focusing on issues of interpretation (section 3), we deal with pragmatic markers from the perspective of “projective meaning” and “conversational moves”.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"387-426"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077724","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":"Daniel Wedgwood: Shifting the focus: From static structures to the dynamics of interpretation","authors":"Mátyás Gerőcs","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"487-495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.4.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077619","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":"The left periphery of CP phases in Japanese","authors":"K. Yoshimoto","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.3","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses syntactic conditions under which complement clauses constitute a phase in Japanese. Since CPs are assumed to be phasal (Chomsky 2000; 2001), it is predicted by the Phase Impenetrability Condition that phrasal extraction out of a CP complement must transit through the edge of the complement, i.e., Spec CP. As Spec CP is an Ā-position and movement through an Ā-position must create a uniform Ā-chain, phrasal extraction out of a phasal complement is expected to create an Ā-chain. However, evidence from Japanese suggests that long distance A-scrambling is permissible out of some complement clauses that are headed by an overt complementizer (Uchibori 2000). It follows therefore that the category CP is not sufficient to characterize clausal phases. In search for an alternative definition of clausal phases, I argue that main clause phenomena such as thematic topics and exhaustive foci are allowed only in phasal complements in Japanese. Assuming that Top and Foc are licensed by Force (Haegeman...","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"339-384"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077715","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":"An outline of an asymmetric two-component theory of aspect","authors":"Boglárka Németh","doi":"10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents the bases of an asymmetric two-component model of aspect. The main theoretical conclusion of the study is that (grammatical) viewpoint aspect and situation aspect are not independent aspectual levels, since the former often modifies the input situation aspect of the phrase/sentence. As it is shown, besides the arguments and adjuncts of the predicate, viewpoint aspect is also an important factor in compositionally marking situation aspect. The aspectual framework put forward in the paper is verified and illustrated on the basis of the aspectual system of Hungarian and some examples taken from English linguistic data.","PeriodicalId":54157,"journal":{"name":"Acta Linguistica Hungarica","volume":"59 1","pages":"303-338"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1556/ALING.59.2012.3.2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"67077704","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}