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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Genealogy, areal distribution | |
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| A general overview of the syntactic and morphosyntactic features of Hungarian | |
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| The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence | |
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| The topic function | |
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| The formal features of the topic constituent | |
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| The marking of the topic-predicate boundary | |
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| The topic projection | |
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| Apparent and real topicless sentences. The (in)definiteness effect | |
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| Sentence adverbials and the topic-predicate articulation | |
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| The contrastive topic | |
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| Summary | |
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| The minimal predicate | |
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| Argument order in the VP | |
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| The referentiality effect | |
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| The subject as an internal argument | |
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| The structure of the VP | |
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| Morphosyntactic projections | |
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| The verbal prefix | |
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| The nominal predicate | |
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| Summary | |
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| Focussing | |
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| The focus function | |
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| The syntax of focus | |
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| Inherent foci | |
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| Only-phrases | |
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| Wh-questions | |
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| Summary | |
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| Quantification | |
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| Distributive quantifiers at the head of the predicate | |
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| The DistP projection | |
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| The scope principle | |
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| Quantifiers or adverbial modifiers? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Negation | |
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| Two NegP projections | |
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| The locus of negative pronouns licensed by nem | |
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| The status of sem | |
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| The universal and existential readings of negative pronouns | |
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| Long distance negative polarity | |
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| The negative existential verb | |
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| Summary | |
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| The noun phrase | |
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| The basic syntactic layers of the noun phrase | |
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| Evidence for the different noun phrase projections | |
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| The possessive construction | |
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| Non-possessor arguments in the noun phrase | |
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| Summary | |
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| The postpositional phrase | |
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| Restricting the category of postpositions | |
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| The formal properties of postpositional phrases | |
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| The structure of the postpositional phrase | |
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| PPs as verb modifiers | |
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| Case-marked pronouns or PPs? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Subject and object control constructions | |
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| Infinitival complex predicates | |
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| Agreeing infinitives with a case-marked subject | |
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| Adverbial participle phrases | |
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| Adjectival participle phrases | |
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| Summary | |
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| The subordinate clause | |
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| Introduction | |
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| That-clauses | |
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| Relative clauses | |
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| Adverbial clauses | |
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| Long operator movement | |
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| Parasitic gaps | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |