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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 | |