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Kenesei I.

Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)

2005

vol. 129

issue 1

1-12

This is the written version of a talk given at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences on the role of current research in rejuvenating the traditional field of normative linguistics. While there can be several approaches to linguistic phenomena, a more thorough reliance on descriptive, theoretical, sociological, or statistic studies could certainly help eradicate extreme and unsubstantiated claims as to speakers' linguistic behaviour. It is suggested that the old ways of advising the public on usage should be supplemented by spreading the news of the amazing new achievements of various branches of linguistics in general, and in neurolinguistics and language technology in particular.

DOUBLE FOCUS AND DOUBLE NEGATION IN HUNGARIAN

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Kenesei I.

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)

2005

vol. 101

issue 2

178-196

This paper describes a focus-related phenomenon that has not been discussed in the literature to date: the case in which a negated focus is preceded by a question word. The circumstances of its emergence are clarified and the conditions of its occurrence are stated: only discourse-bound question words can figure in such constructions, and it seems to be probable that the reason why multiple foci occurring in positive sentences differ from focus in negative wh-questions is that Hungarian surface sentences must exactly reflect semantic (scope) relations. If the verb were to precede a negated focus, scope problems corroborated by independent evidence would result. It is furthermore explored how the subsystems of grammar force the single possible solution to emerge. Applying a 'copy and deletion' type of movement operations, a better account can be provided for why and how the form of a sentence that serves as a basis for logico-semantic interpretation differs from its phonetic implementation. Finally, a brief overview of possibilities of responses to (multiple) question + negated focus sentences is provided - with the consequence that interesting relationships can be found between the occurrence of contrastive topic and contrastive focus.

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