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The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax (Hardcover)
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The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics, 11
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This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the
diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of
non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more
than 800 years. Professor E. Kiss and several internationally
recognized experts in the field bring together the best in
traditional descriptive linguistics and the state-of-the-art in
theoretical linguistics to offer an indepth and original survey of
some of the most important structural changes in the history of
Hungarian. The book specifically focuses on the restructuring of
Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial, which started in
the Proto-Hungarian age. This development led to fundamental
structural changes, resulting in the evolution of functional left
peripheries on various levels of syntactic structure by the 16th
century. Chapters examine a number of related topics, including the
emergence of focus, topic, and negative quantifiers, the marking of
definiteness, universal quantifiers, and non-finite and finite
subordination. The mechanisms of change are those observed in
Indo-European languages (reanalysis, grammaticalization,
cyclicity), but the paths of change have often been different. The
book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students
working in historical and diachronic linguistics, as well as all
those interested in the mechanisms and theory of linguistic change.
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