Dative as the unmarked unmarked case in Hungarian

Newson, Mark; Szécsényi, Krisztina

doi:10.5817/lb2020-2-3

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“…The dative DPs we are concerned with in the present paper are all associated with unmarked dative domains in Newson and Szécsényi (2020). Among others, we systematically find unmarked dative case in the complements AgN, the non-finite agreement head that appears in possessive DPs and inflected infinitives and differs from the finite agreement paradigm.…”

Section: Unmarked Nominative and Dative In Hungariansupporting

confidence: 50%

“…Though Hungarian does have inherent datives, assuming a difference in case type will not explain case-change as the constructions in question involve structural datives only, as indicated by the fact that the relevant DPs are not restricted to a specific interpretation. Furthermore, as argued in Newson and Szécsényi (2020), the fact that the dative subjects of inflected infinitives show clear parallels with the nominative subjects of finite clauses, both cases emerging on subjects in transitive and intransitive contexts (( 6) and ( 7)), demonstrates that these cases are not only structural but specifically unmarked.…”

Section: Case and Movement In Hungarianmentioning

confidence: 73%

“…Having presented the empirical focus of our paper, in section 2 we argue in support of the movement analysis and against an account in terms of base generation. Section 3 presents background information on Baker's (2015) Dependent Case Theory (DCT) highlighting the notion of soft and hard domains and discusses the results of earlier work on a DCT account of Hungarian (Newson and Szécsényi 2020). Section 4 looks more closely at Baker's (2015) stance on the relationship between case and movement and identifies a number of problems in his analysis.…”

Section: Movement Of a Nominative Possessor Within A Dp Changes The C...mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This part of the paper builds heavily on the conclusions reached in Newson and Szécsényi (2020), the aim of which is giving a consistent account of the distribution of nominative and structural dative DPs in Hungarian in a DCT framework.…”

Section: Unmarked Nominative and Dative In Hungarianmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our story starts at the point when the non-finite agreement is merged with its TP complement in which the subject has already undergone a movement from its vP internal position. According to the analysis given in Newson and Szécsényi (2020), AgN is a phase head and therefore TP is a case domain. Here we add the claim that AgN is a hard phase head and therefore TP is a hard case domain, as indicated by the solid circle around it in the following diagram:…”

Section: Case Changing and Case Maintaining Movements In Dependent Ca...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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The editors are grateful to all those who have helped make the fifth volume of the Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (and the ninth volume in the whole series) a reality. Above all, as always, we would like to thank all the authors for both their enthusiastic participation in the conference and their cooperation in the time-consuming editorial process. We would also like to express our immense gratitude to all the reviewers who devotedly participated in the process of accepting and reviewing the papers for the conference and later another round of the peer-reviewing process for the proceedings.Finally, we would like to express gratitude to our colleagues and students from the Faculty of Arts of Palacký University, Olomouc, for their efforts related to the organization of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium (OLINCO), which took place online in June 2021. We greatly appreciate the assistance of our fellow organizers Michaela Martinková, Václav Jonáš Podlipský, and Šárka Šimáčková, as well as the support provided

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Domains of case changing and case maintaining movements

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With recent developments in Case Theory, movements in which a DP acquires a different case to the one it would have received had it not moved have been accepted as a possibility. In this paper we examine a number of such movements from a variety of languages to attempt to characterise and understand them more fully. Based in Dependent Case Theory, our analysis claims that case change does not really happen, but case assignment is allowed to be delayed under certain circumstances creating the illusion of one case over-writing another. In explicating these circumstances, we are not only able to provide a better understanding of when ‘case change’ can and can’t happen, but also develop the theory in ways which address certain conceptual problems that it faces.

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Not so exceptional case marking in English

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Not so exceptional case marking in English 51 of such terms. Using such names has often been assumed to be a positive way to compare and contrast different case systems in the world's languages. With their use, for example, we can see similarities between the Hungarian subject of a finite clause, which carries no case morphology, and the equivalent element in Japanese, which is marked for case. This is because both languages have a nominative-accusative system, assigning one case (morphologically unmarked in Hungarian but marked in Japanese) to grammatical subjects and a different one to the object (marked in both languages) 2 .(2) a János- meghív-t-a Mari-t. János-NOM invite-PAST-3S. Mari-ACC 'John invited Mary.' b Mari- alsz-ik. Mary-NOM sleep-3S. 'Mary is sleeping.'(3) a Inu-ga mizu-o no-mu. dog-NOM water-ACC drink-PRES 'The dog drinks water.' b Shojo-ga aru-ku girl-NOM walk-PRES 'The girls walks.'In turn, we can then contrast these languages with those which have an ergativeabsolutive system, such as Basque, where the subject of the intransitive clause is assigned the same case as the object (absolutive), while the subject of the transitive gets another case (ergative).(4) a Jon-ek sagar bat jan du. John-ERG apple a.ABS eat have.(3S.ABS.)3S.ERG 'John has eaten an apple.' b Mahai-a apurtu da. table-DET.ABS break be.3S.ABS 'The table broke.' 2 Baker (2015) claims that Japanese is a marked nominative language, which in his system is a distinct case system characterised by a negative condition on the assignment of dependent case (assign dependent case to a DP which is NOT c-commanded by another DP in the same domain). In such a system, 'nominative' is the dependent case and 'accusative' is unmarked. However, while there are languages in which nominative is morphologically marked and accusative is unmarked, in Japanese both nominative and accusative are marked.

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Dative as the unmarked unmarked case in Hungarian

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Language Use and Linguistic Structure: Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2021

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Domains of case changing and case maintaining movements

Not so exceptional case marking in English

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