Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

Gärtner, Hans‐Martin; Gyuris, Beáta

doi:10.1556/aling.59.2012.4.1

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“…Contrary to the previous types, the preferred agent is AR (3b), and the dispreferred agent is ae (3c). In harmony with Szücs (2010) and Gärtner-Gyuris (2012), we can establish that, in sentences with subjunctive verb morphology, two main meaning components can be assigned to the Hungarian hortative marker hadd 'let'. The first one can be paraphrased as 'ask for permission', and it can appear with 1st and 3rd person action verb forms (3a-b).…”

Section: The Data: Five Hungarian Imperative Sentence Typessupporting

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The intensional profiles of five hungarian imperative sentence types

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The paper investigates Hungarian imperative sentence types from a pragmaticosemantic point of view. In addition to the baseline imperative, it analyzes types with non-standard intonation pattern and/or discourse markers. We apply the (S)DRT-based discourse-semantic framework of ℜeALIS for the examination and representation of five form–function pairs. The discussed types are all assigned an intensional profile which encodes the interlocutors’ beliefs, desires and intentions (from the addresser’s perspective). The analysis derives the different meanings of the variants from parametric differences.

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Section: The Data: Five Hungarian Imperative Sentence Typessupporting

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“…The next type we discuss has subjunctive verb form, and it contains the discourse marker vajon 'whether', which expresses self-reflection (Gärtner & Gyuris, 2012), similarly to the English clause 'I wonder'. Its intonation is analogous to that of a simple polar question: risingfalling with the rise on the penultimate syllable.…”

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Compositional analysis of interrogative imperatives in Hungarian

Kleiber

Alberti

2017

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The paper investigates utterances which combine imperative and interrogative elements in Hungarian. We intend to explore the scope of the hypothesis that the pragmatico-semantic content of mixed-type sentences can be obtained compositionally. We present four types of interrogative imperative. The imperative factor is indicated by subjunctive morphology on the verb. The interrogative character is represented by (1) rise-fall intonation which marks polar questions, (2) the discourse marker ugye expressing bias, (3) the particle vajon expressing self-reflection or hesitation, and (4) wavy intonation which indicates surprise. We claim that such sentences are primarily questions with their main function being ‘request for instruction’. For the analysis, we take a formal pragmatico-semantic point of view. Our goal is to demonstrate how these sentences can be analyzed compositionally within a belief–desire–intention frame. We apply the formal dynamic discourse- and mind-representation theory ReALIS. We have found that the pragmatico-semantic content (intensional profile) of each type can be constructed via using two formal operations: concatenation and pragmasemantic blending. The composition produces the required output, namely that the interrogation / bias / speculation / surprise which pertains to an eventuality in the case of a simple question, pertains to the “commanding” of this eventuality in the case of interrogative imperatives.

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“…It was the task of other papers 5 to enumerate arguments for ℜeALIS and against the "Kripke/Montague-inspired possible-worlds semantics," as this latter is referred to by Pollard 2 On this latter topic, see Farkas and Ohnmacht (2012), Alberti, Dóla and Kleiber (2014), and Alberti and Nőthig (2015). 3 In Gärtner and Gyuris's (2012) cross-linguistic approach, it is claimed that "what has been called 'imperative' in Hungarian is actually some kind of 'proto-imperative'" (or proto-imperative-hortative, with Subjunctive morphology on verbs (Kaufman 2012: 7)). 4 Such theories belong to this family as DRT (Kamp and Reyle 1993, van Eijck and Kamp 1997, Kamp et al 2011,…”

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“…In (2c), the label of intensity is underspecified in a similar way, and in Table2, the use of referent r* licenses underspecification in respect of distribution of roles in the given expositive speech acts. 12 Our pragmatico-semantic analyses are chiefly inspired by and partly based onSzücs's (2010) empirical observations and systematization, besides a few observations byTuri (2009) andPéteri (2012) and the methodological clarification byGärtner and Gyuris (2012).…”

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Intensional profiles and different kinds of human minds. “Case studies” about Hungarian imperative-like sentence types

Alberti

Kleiber

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The paper offers such description of some imperative-like sentence types in potential well-formed Hungarian utterances which includes a parallel representation of the linguistically encoded intensional profiles of the sentence types and actual information states in potential interlocutors’ minds. In our representational dynamic pragmasemantics framework ReALIS, we demonstrate the intensional profiles of the five basic and two “fine-tuned” sentence types as members of a system enabling addressers’ of utterances to express their beliefs, desires and intentions concerning the propositional content of the given utterances as well as the addressees’ and other people’s certain beliefs, desires and intentions (concerning the propositional content, too, or each other’s thoughts). We also provide “case studies” in which actual beliefs, desires and intentions in potential interlocutors’ minds are compared to the linguistically encoded intensional profiles of Hungarian imperative-like sentence types. In this context, the listener’s task is to calculate the speaker’s intentions (and hidden motives) on the basis of the mismatches that this comparison reveals. The paper concludes with an insight into our attempts to model the mind of individuals living with Autism Spectrum Disorder. This latter subproject is relevant since our framework provides solutions to pragmaticosemantic phenomena “at the cost” of undertaking the complex task of actually representing the structure of the human mind itself – which is not impossible but requires an adequate decision of the level of abstraction and the components to be used.

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Pragmatic markers in Hungarian: Some introductory remarks

Cited by 16 publications

References 74 publications

The intensional profiles of five hungarian imperative sentence types

The intensional profiles of five hungarian imperative sentence types

Compositional analysis of interrogative imperatives in Hungarian

Intensional profiles and different kinds of human minds. “Case studies” about Hungarian imperative-like sentence types

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