Chapter 7. A case of disagreement
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György Rákosi
Abstract
The chapter discusses the so-called Hungarian reduplicating particle verb construction that has generated some interest in the pertinent generative literature on Hungarian. This literature is divided over whether reduplicating particles can bear plural morphology in the presence of a third person plural oblique associate or not: some accept and some reject the resulting agreeing reduplicating particle verb construction, thus creating a par excellence context of data inconsistency. The chapter offers a detailed and critical overview of the literature, and presents some novel arguments in an effort to find a paraconsistent solution to this problem within the framework of the p-model of Kertész and Rákosi (2012). This solution rests and on the claim that the plural and the non-plural reduplicating particle verb constructions are radically different in their grammar, since the particle only acts as a pronominal in the case of the former construction type. The pronominal use of the particle is a marked option, rendering the agreeing reduplicating particle verb construction a marked phenomenon of Hungarian grammar.
Abstract
The chapter discusses the so-called Hungarian reduplicating particle verb construction that has generated some interest in the pertinent generative literature on Hungarian. This literature is divided over whether reduplicating particles can bear plural morphology in the presence of a third person plural oblique associate or not: some accept and some reject the resulting agreeing reduplicating particle verb construction, thus creating a par excellence context of data inconsistency. The chapter offers a detailed and critical overview of the literature, and presents some novel arguments in an effort to find a paraconsistent solution to this problem within the framework of the p-model of Kertész and Rákosi (2012). This solution rests and on the claim that the plural and the non-plural reduplicating particle verb constructions are radically different in their grammar, since the particle only acts as a pronominal in the case of the former construction type. The pronominal use of the particle is a marked option, rendering the agreeing reduplicating particle verb construction a marked phenomenon of Hungarian grammar.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
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Part I: The methodological framework
- Chapter 2. The p-model of data and evidence in linguistics 15
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Part II: Object-theoretical applications
- Chapter 3. The plausibility of approaches to syntactic alternation of Hungarian verbs 51
- Chapter 4. Methods and argumentation in historical linguistics 71
- Chapter 5. Hungarian verbs of natural phenomena with explicit and implicit subject arguments 103
- Chapter 6. The development of a taxonomy of verbal disagreements in the light of the p-model 133
- Chapter 7. A case of disagreement 179
- Chapter 8. A plausibility-based model of shifted indexicals 199
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Part III: Metatheoretical applications
- Chapter 9. Thought experiments and real experiments as converging data sources in pragmatics 221
- Chapter 10. Data and the resolution of inconsistency in Optimality Theory 271
- Chapter 11. Conclusions 309
- Author index 315
- Subject index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
-
Part I: The methodological framework
- Chapter 2. The p-model of data and evidence in linguistics 15
-
Part II: Object-theoretical applications
- Chapter 3. The plausibility of approaches to syntactic alternation of Hungarian verbs 51
- Chapter 4. Methods and argumentation in historical linguistics 71
- Chapter 5. Hungarian verbs of natural phenomena with explicit and implicit subject arguments 103
- Chapter 6. The development of a taxonomy of verbal disagreements in the light of the p-model 133
- Chapter 7. A case of disagreement 179
- Chapter 8. A plausibility-based model of shifted indexicals 199
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Part III: Metatheoretical applications
- Chapter 9. Thought experiments and real experiments as converging data sources in pragmatics 221
- Chapter 10. Data and the resolution of inconsistency in Optimality Theory 271
- Chapter 11. Conclusions 309
- Author index 315
- Subject index 317
