Original scientific paper

What is really the function of the verbal particle in Hungarian

Annamaria Bene ; University of Novi Sad Hungarian Language Teacher–training Faculty

Abstract

In my paper I am discussing the newest analysis of verbal particles (É. Kiss, Katalin 2006.
The function and the syntax of the verbal particle. In É. Kiss, Katalin ed., 2006. Event structure
and the Left Periphery. Dordrecht: Springer.) which suggest that these function morphemes
are to be analyzed as secondary predicates. My goal is to show, this approach
should be revisited: by examining the verbal particles with regard to Hungarian secondary
resultative predication we see that the role assigned to the verbal particle is not secondary
predication, but mere delimitation. Further, it will become obvious that resultative phrases
are not the phrasal counterparts of verbal particles.

Keywords

verbal particle; delimiter; resultative phrase; secondary predication

Hrčak ID:

47107

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/47107

Publication date:

16.12.2009.

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