Syntax of Hungarian: Postpositions and Postpositional Phrases

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Cover Contents General introduction István Kenesei General Editor 1. The series 2. Previous research into the grammar of Hungarian 3. The project 4. The language 5. Acknowledgments References Chapter 1: General characteristics and overview Veronika Hegedűs 1.1. Introduction 1.2. Basic types and properties of postpositions 1.3. Syntactic uses of postpositions 1.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 2: Postpositions: formal and semantic classification Éva Dékány and Veronika Hegedűs 2.1. Introduction 2.2. Formal characterization 2.3. Semantic classification 2.4. Where to draw the line: Borderline cases of postpositions 2.5. Bibliographical notes Chapter 3: The internal syntax of PPs Veronika Hegedűs and Éva Dékány 3.1. Introduction 3.2. Complementation 3.3. Modification 3.4. Bibliographical notes Chapter 4: Predicative PPs 4.1. Introduction 4.2. PPs used as primary predicates 4.3. Telicizing PPs 4.4. Atelic verb modifiers 4.5. The syntax of verb modifiers 4.6. Depictives 4.7. Summary 4.8. Bibliographical notes Chapter 5: PPs used as arguments 5.1. Introduction 5.2. PPs and verbal particles 5.3. Core and non-core PP arguments 5.4. Core and non-core PP arguments of adjectives 5.5. PP complements in noun phrases 5.6. Summary 5.7. Bibliographical notes Chapter 6: PPs used as obligatory adjuncts Katalin É. Kiss 6.1. Introduction 6.2. Definiteness Effect verbs 6.3. Types of internal arguments blocked by the Definiteness Effect 6.4. Definiteness Effect and aspect 6.5. Neutralizing the Definiteness Effect by a focused adjunct 6.6. Summary 6.7. Bibliographical notes Chapter 7: PPs as adjuncts Barbara Egedi 7.1. Introduction 7.2. Categorial types and formal properties of adverbial adjuncts 7.3. Semantic types of adverbial adjuncts 7.4. Placement and prosody 7.5. Summary 7.6. Bibliographical notes Subject index References