EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF HUNGARIAN WORD ORDER 1: OPTIMALITY THEORY

• Authors: Imrenyi Andras
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The first part of a two-part series, this study outlines an experimental model of Hungarian word order in the framework of Optimality Theory (OT). While representatives of mainstream generative theory have widely and thoroughly studied Hungarian syntax, little effort has been made to challenge successive models of this influential paradigm. Applying a radical version of syntactic OT proposed by Newson (2000, 2004), the present work abandons phrase structure representations to rely solely on a purely optimality theoretic device, a set of violable alignment constraints that govern linear relations between individual words.

Keywords

EN

HUNGARIAN; OPTIMALITY THEORY; PHRASE STRUCTURE; WORD ORDER

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 195-212
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Imrenyi Andras

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090416