K Kiss - Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2008 - akjournals.com
The paper explicates the notions of topic, contrastive topic, and focus as used in the analysis of Hungarian. Based on distributional criteria, topic and focus are claimed to represent …
This article takes a close look at correlatives in Hungarian and shows that they occupy a particular space in the typology of correlatives: Hungarian correlativization is solely used as …
Z Gécseg, F Kiefer - Natural language & linguistic theory, 2009 - Springer
It is a commonly accepted view in the Hungarian linguistic literature that sentence structure is determined by information structure, viewed as a phrase structure theoretic interpretation …
The paper argues against the uniform analysis of the left-peripheral elements of sentence structure as specifiers of designated functional projections, participating in feature checking …
K Kiss, M Gerőcs, T Zétényi - Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 2013 - akjournals.com
This paper presents the results of two sentence-picture matching experiments investigating how Hungarian preschoolers interpret doubly quantified sentences involving numerical …
This dissertation investigates experimentally the role of Question-Answer Congruence (QAC, von Stechow 1990, Rooth 1985, 1992) in child language acquisition and adult …
The paper investigates a problem related to the distribution of quantity-indicating determiners as contrastive topics in Hungarian sentences containing a verum/falsum focus …
This book focuses on a structure of MSA, namely dislocation involving a coreferential clitic, and aims to investigate three aspects:(i) the properties of this structure in MSA and how it …
KÉ Kiss - Papers from the 2007 New York Conference, 2009 - torrossa.com
This paper derives the properties of Hungarian se-pronouns from independently motivated assumptions, among them an adjunction theory of Q-raising allowing both left-and right …