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In:Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State
Edited by Casper de Groot
[Typological Studies in Language 119] 2017
► pp. 325–351

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Chapter 14
The essives in Hungarian

Published online: 30 November 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/tsl.119.14deg
Abstract
This chapter presents an empirical study of the distribution of the three essive markers in Hungarian on the basis of a linguistic questionnaire that captures the contexts in which essive and translative markers may occur in the Uralic languages. The study specifically investigates the opposition between permanent and impermanent state in non-verbal predications. The linguistic domains involved are non-verbal main predication, secondary predication, complementation, and manner, temporal, and circumstantial adverbial phrases. The use of the essives (associated with state) is contrasted with the use of the translative (associated with change). Finally, the syntactic position of elements marked by an essive is discussed in relation to the position of focus constituents.
Article outline
  • 0.Preliminary
  • 1.Introduction
    • 1.1Hungarian and the Hungarians
    • 1.2The case inventory of Hungarian
    • 1.3Hungarian productive essive forms
    • 1.4Less productive and non-productive forms
  • 2.Non-verbal predication
  • 3.Secondary predication
    • 3.1Depictive
      • 3.1.1General properties of depictives with an essive in Hungarian
      • 3.1.2-ként
      • 3.1.3-ul/-ül
      • 3.1.4-n/-an/-en
      • 3.1.5Other (markers of) depictives
    • 3.2Resultative
  • 4.Predicative complements
  • 5.Manner adverbials
  • 6.Temporality, circumstance, and location
    • 6.1Temporal expressions
    • 6.2Circumstantial expressions
    • 6.3Locational expressions
  • 7.Comparative and simile expressions
  • 8.Essive versus translative
  • 9.Word order
  • 10.Conclusions and final remarks
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • References
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The Hungarian Gigaword Corpus: <[URL]>
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