Krisztina Szécsényi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Krisztina Szécsényi is involved.
Articles
2021 Control and covert modality in Hungarian: MECs and postverbal-only focus constructions Non-canonical Control in a Cross-linguistic Perspective, Mucha, Anne, Jutta M. Hartmann and Beata Trawiński (eds.), pp. 167–194 | Chapter
We discuss two seemingly unrelated constructions of Hungarian: a type of modal existential wh-construction (MEC), and a structure that on the surface seems to be a monoclausal focus construction. They are argued to have a similar biclausal underlying structure involving control and covert… read more
2020 Object agreement and locality in Hungarian: Infinitival complement clauses, second person objects and accusative adjuncts Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 165–186 | Chapter
The paper claims that the two types of object agreement in Hungarian, definiteness agreement and the special lak-agreement form used for the combination of first person singular subject and second person object arguments, are the result of different syntactic operations. The argumentation is… read more