Johan Brandtler

List of John Benjamins publications in which Johan Brandtler is involved.

Titles

Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference

Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack

This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more

[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.

The Evaluability Hypothesis: The syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of polarity item licensing

Johan Brandtler

Although the field of polarity is well researched, this monograph offers a new take on polarity sensitivity that both challenges and incorporates previous theories. Based primarily on Swedish data, it presents new solutions to long-standing problems, such as the non-complementary distribution of… read more

[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 183] 2012. xiii, 199 pp.

Article

Brandtler, Johan and Valéria Molnár 2016 Rethinking clausal asymmetries: Propositional pronoun insertion in Hungarian Inner-sentential Propositional Proforms: Syntactic properties and interpretative effects, Frey, Werner, André Meinunger and Kerstin Schwabe (eds.), pp. 241–270 | Article

This paper proposes a theoretically minimal analysis of cataphoric propositional pronoun insertion in complex sentences in Hungarian, based on the realization of the SpecCP in the embedded clause. In accordance with Chomsky (2008), we assume that the derivation of SpecCP results from the… read more