The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian - download pdf or read online

By Katalin É. Kiss

ISBN-10: 0198709854

ISBN-13: 9780198709855

This ebook adopts a generative framework to enquire the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, certainly one of just a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented heritage spanning greater than 800 years. Professor É. Kiss and several other across the world well-known specialists within the box compile the easiest in conventional descriptive linguistics and the state of the art in theoretical linguistics to supply an indepth and unique survey of a few of the main important
structural adjustments within the historical past of Hungarian.

The publication in particular specializes in the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial, which begun within the Proto-Hungarian age. This improvement ended in basic structural alterations, leading to the evolution of practical left peripheries on a number of degrees of syntactic constitution through the sixteenth century. Chapters learn a couple of comparable issues, together with the emergence of concentration, subject, and damaging quantifiers, the marking of definiteness, common quantifiers, and
non-finite and finite subordination. The mechanisms of swap are these saw in Indo-European languages (reanalysis, grammaticalization, cyclicity), however the paths of swap have frequently been different.

The booklet should be of curiosity to researchers and graduate scholars operating in ancient and diachronic linguistics, in addition to all these drawn to the mechanisms and idea of linguistic change.

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