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- Title
The syntactic position of the subject in Hungarian existential constructions.
- Authors
Gécseg, Zsuzsanna
- Abstract
The aim of this paper is to examine the factors that determine the syntactic position of the subject in Hungarian existential constructions. I argue that the exact positioning of the subject in these constructions is influenced by a number of semantic and contextual features, such as the semantic and pragmatic function of the utterance and the information status of the individual denoted by the subject. These factors may interact with each other, but there is always a dominant strategy which determines the order of the constituents.
- Subjects
SEMANTICS (Philosophy); HUNGARIAN language; SEMANTICS; DESCRIPTION (Philosophy); PRAGMATICS
- Publication
Argumentum (1787-3606), 2019, Issue 15, p545
- ISSN
1787-3606
- Publication type
Article