Syntax of Hungarian: Coordination and Ellipsis

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Syntax of Hungarian aims to present a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of the Hungarian language, rooted in theory but providing highly detailed descriptions, and intended to be of use to researchers, as well as advanced students of language and linguistics. As research in language leads to extensive changes in our understanding and representations of grammar, the Comprehensive Grammar Resources series intends to present the most current understanding of grammar and syntax as completely as possible in a way that will both speak to modern linguists and serve as a resource for the non-specialist. This volume provides a comprehensive overview and description of coordinate structures, the syntactic and semantic types of conjunctions, as well as the types of ellipses in sentences and short dialogues. It discusses multiple conjunctions, coordinated wh-constructions, sluicing, and sentence fragments. Cover Contents General introduction István Kenesei 1. The series 2. Previous research into the grammar of Hungarian 3. The project 4. The language 5. Acknowledgements References Chapter 1: Coordinate conjunctions Zoltán Bánréti 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Basic classes of coordinate conjunctions 1.3. Features of coordinatability 1.4. Coordinate constructions and number agreement 1.5. Agreement in person features 1.6. Agreement between the features of coordinated direct objects and verbal endings 1.7. Overt and covert conjunctions 1.8. Summary 1.9. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2: Types of conjunctions Zoltán Bánréti 2.1. Introduction 2.2. N-ary conjunctions 2.3. Binary conjunctions 2.4. Binary conjunctions cannot be applied to non-predicative use of NP/DP 2.5. Binary conjunctions: some pragmatic functions 2.6. The presence of the overt binary and n-ary conjunctions 2.7. Binary conjunctions: precedence constraints 2.8. A summary overview: differences between the functions of n-ary vs. binary conjunctions 2.9. Multiple conjunctions in parallel structures 2.10. A summary of the most important features of multiple conjunctions 2.11. Bibliographical notes Chapter 3: Coordinated wh-constructions Anna Gazdik 3.1. Introduction 3.2. The empirical domain of the present chapter 3.3. The syntactic structure 3.4. On coordination in multiple questions 3.5. Summary 3.6. Bibliographical notes Chapter 4: VP-ellipsis in coordinated clauses with a parallel structure Zoltán Bánréti 4.1. Introduction 4.2. Two directions of ellipsis 4.3. Morphosyntactic conditions 4.4. Some aspects of NP/ DP ellipsis 4.5. Backward ellipsis operates on words 4.6. Strict and/or sloppy identity of pronoun and the parallelism 4.7. Gapping 4.8. Summary 4.9. Bibliographical notes Chapter 5: Sluicing Anikó Lipták 5.1. Sluicing in wh-interrogatives 5.2. Sluicing with non-wh remnants 5.3. Relative sluicing 5.4. Case connectivity in sluicing 5.5. Sluicing and locality 5.6. Summary 5.7. Bibliographical notes Chapter 6: Predicate ellipsis Anikó Lipták 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Ellipsis following auxiliary and semi-lexical material 6.3. Ellipsis following finite lexical verbs (V-stranding ellipsis) 6.4. Ellipsis following verbal modifiers: particle stranding ellipsis 6.5. Ellipsis after preverbal modifiers of participials 6.6. Predicate ellipsis following polarity particles 6.7. Summary 6.8. Bibliographical notes Chapter 7: Nominal ellipsis Anikó Lipták 7.1. NP ellipsis: the basic data 7.2. Type of remnants in NP ellipsis 7.3. Morphological marking of elliptical noun phrases 7.4. Semantic properties of NP ellipsis 7.5. Information structural properties of NP ellipsis 7.6. Grammatical functions of elliptical noun phrases 7.7. Anaphoric possibilities in possessed nominals 7.8. Summary 7.9. Bibliographical notes Chapter 8: Fragments Anikó Lipták 8.1. Definition and setting the scope of this chapter 8.2. The logical functions and types of fragmentary constituents 8.3. Embedded and layered fragments 8.4. Case connectivity in fragments 8.5. Multiple fragments 8.6. Summary 8.7. Bibliographical notes Subject index References