From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X
This paper argues that Hungarian underwent a word order change from SOV to Top Foc V X* prior to its documented history beginning in 1192. Proto-Hungarian SOV is reconstructed primarily on the basis of shared constructions of archaic Old Hungarian, and Khanty and Mansi, the sister languages of Hunga...
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crjohnbenjaminsp:10.1075/dia.30.2.03kis 2024-06-09T07:47:27+00:00 From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X Kiss, Katalin É. 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.30.2.03kis http://www.jbe-platform.com/deliver/fulltext/dia.30.2.03kis.pdf en eng John Benjamins Publishing Company http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ Diachronica page 202-231 ISSN 0176-4225 1569-9714 journal-article 2013 crjohnbenjaminsp https://doi.org/10.1075/dia.30.2.03kis 2024-05-15T13:26:27Z This paper argues that Hungarian underwent a word order change from SOV to Top Foc V X* prior to its documented history beginning in 1192. Proto-Hungarian SOV is reconstructed primarily on the basis of shared constructions of archaic Old Hungarian, and Khanty and Mansi, the sister languages of Hungarian. The most likely scenario of the change from head-final to head-initial was the spreading of right dislocation, and the reanalysis of right dislocated elements by new generations of speakers as arguments in situ. In Hungarian — as opposed to Khanty and Mansi — right dislocation was facilitated by the extension of differential object marking to all direct objects. The change in basic word order initiated the restructuring of other parts of Hungarian grammar as well, which is a still ongoing process. [As of June 2015, this article is available as Open Access under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.] Article in Journal/Newspaper khanty Mansi John Benjamins Publishing Company Diachronica 202 231 |
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This paper argues that Hungarian underwent a word order change from SOV to Top Foc V X* prior to its documented history beginning in 1192. Proto-Hungarian SOV is reconstructed primarily on the basis of shared constructions of archaic Old Hungarian, and Khanty and Mansi, the sister languages of Hungarian. The most likely scenario of the change from head-final to head-initial was the spreading of right dislocation, and the reanalysis of right dislocated elements by new generations of speakers as arguments in situ. In Hungarian — as opposed to Khanty and Mansi — right dislocation was facilitated by the extension of differential object marking to all direct objects. The change in basic word order initiated the restructuring of other parts of Hungarian grammar as well, which is a still ongoing process. [As of June 2015, this article is available as Open Access under a CC-BY-NC 4.0 license.] |
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From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X |
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From Proto-Hungarian SOV to Old Hungarian Top Foc V X |
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