7. Adverbial versus adjectival constructions with BE

Syntax of Hungarian

“…Kiss (1999, Spencer (2008) and Trommer (2008), for instance, consider only case-like Ps to be true Ps. Here we follow Marácz (1984Marácz ( , 1986Marácz ( , 1989; Kenesei et al (1998), Payne and Chisarik (2000); Kádár (2009), Dékány (2011) and Hegedűs (2006Hegedűs ( , 2013, among others, in treating case-assigning Ps as genuine postpositions.…”

“…Adverbs are often taken to be a separate word class, either lexical or functional. Here we follow considerations in the literature that have come to the conclusion that what are often classified as adverbs are postpositional in their category (Asbury et al 2007, Kádár 2009, but cf. also É.…”

“…by Kiefer 2000c) discusses case endings, adverbial derivational suffixes, and verbal particles at length. The idea of assimilating semantic case morphemes to postpositions, and assimilating adverbs and verbal particles to postpositional phrases was put forth by Asbury et al (2007) and Kádár (2009). The studies of the volume Adverbs and Adverbial Phrases at the Interfaces (ed.…”

“…Hungarian grammars treat -an/en and -ul/ül as derivational suffixes deriving adverbs from adjectives (see Chapter 2 Section 2.2.4.1.1). However, -an/en is clearly cognate with the superessive case ending -on/en/ön, and -ul/ül is clearly cognate with the shared -l element of the elative suffix -ból/ből, the delative -ról/ről, and the ablative -tól/től, hence it seems justified to analyze adjective + -an/en or -ul/ül complexes as PPs (as proposed by Kádár 2009).…”