Outlines of a theory of the verbal particle

• Authors: E-Kiss K.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The paper aims to outline a theory of the verbal particle which can predict when a Hungarian verb takes a verbal particle and when it does not. It argues that the verbal particle appears in sentences describing complex events, and it is a secondary predicate predicated of the theme argument (hence it is barred from unergative sentences with no theme). It has three subtypes: the resultative particle, predicating the resulting state of a theme undergoing a change of state; the terminative particle, predicating the resulting location of a theme undergoing a change of location, and the locative particle, predicating the location of a theme whose existence or spatial configuration is asserted. Since the subject of predication must be specific, sentences with a non-specific theme can have no particle.

Keywords

EN

PARTICLES (HUNGARIAN); VERBAL PARTICLE (HUNGARIAN)

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Society of Hungarian Linguistics
• Journal: Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 15-43
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

E-Kiss K.

• K. E-Kiss, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05HUAAAA00501262