EXPERIMENTAL MODELS OF HUNGARIAN WORD ORDER 2: DOMAINS AND RELATIONS IN THE HUNGARIAN CLAUSE

• Authors: Imrenyi Andras
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

The second part of a two-part series, this paper aims to provide a radical alternative to standard generative models of the Hungarian clause. Key theoretical features of the new model include (1) a connectionist (relational network theoretic) commitment to defining word order in terms of association and activation patterns rather than discrete units and symbol manipulation, and (2) a cognitive functionalist commitment to viewing grammar not as a self-contained system but as something inextricable from the broader picture of cognition and communication. The paper also offers an 'organic' perspective on the clause, with the predicate analysed as a nuclear clause, or proto-statement, in turn embraced, elaborated and operated on by diverse components of clausal organization.

Keywords

EN

CLAUSE; COGNITIVE FUNCTIONALIST COMMITMENT; GENERATIVE MODEL; GRAMMAR; 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: 4
• Pages: 430-451
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Imrenyi Andras

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090430