APPOSITIONS IN SPOKEN LANGUAGE (A beszelt nyelvi ertelmezo)

• Authors: Balogh Judit
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The paper deals with actual occurrences of appositions and appositional constructions on the basis of a spoken corpus. Its most important result is that appositions tend to occur infrequently in speech and even when they do, their behaviour is not quite what the textbooks suggest. Appositions of qualification and of attribution hardly ever occur; the use of appositions of identification is a lot more widespread. Since appositions of this kind are not transposed attributes in any sense, the author claims that it would be advisable to redefine the syntactic role of appositions as a kind of structural position. This is supported, among other considerations, by the existence of adverbial appositions, as well as by a peculiar relationship of identification between verbal predicates or between attributes in spoken language contexts. On the basis of spontaneous speech data, the authoress claims that appositional constructions should not be rigidly differentiated from identification with the help of coordinating conjunctions, given that co-occurrence with a conjunction is not alien from appositions appearing in spontaneous utterances. The authoress would furthermore add the word mint 'as' to the range of conjunctions potentially involved and introduce 'apposition with mint' as an additional type of appositions.

Keywords

EN

AGREEMENT IN APPOSITIONAL CONSTRUCTION; APPOSITION; APPOSITION OF IDENTIFICATION; APPOSITION WITH CONJUNCTION; ATYPICAL APPOSITION; PARTIAL APPOSITION

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 133
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 66-80
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Balogh Judit

• Judit Balogh, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

10HUAAAA07916