Predication, focus and the positions of negation in Hungarian

The meanings of focus: The significance of an interpretation-based category in cross-linguistic analysis

“…In other words, focus in Quechua is plausibly a reading -perhaps partially inferential and partially conventionalised -of the direct evidential, in much the same way that Somali focus may be an effect of applying the realis mood to propositions and elements of propositions. 7 In this connection, it is notable that the 'predicational ' analysis of the Hungarian focus position (Wedgwood 2005(Wedgwood , 2006É . Kiss 2006) also relates focus-related phenomena to a grammatical mechanism that in effect creates a certain kind of assertion.…”

“…7 In this connection, it is notable that the 'predicational ' analysis of the Hungarian focus position (Wedgwood 2005(Wedgwood , 2006 ; É . Kiss 2006) also relates focus-related phenomena to a grammatical mechanism that in effect creates a certain kind of assertion.…”

“…[10] Wedgwood (2005Wedgwood ( , 2006Wedgwood ( , 2007 suggests one such analysis, treating FP as a particular kind of predicative structure. This finds a partial parallel in É .…”

Prominence in Hungarian: the prosody-syntax connection

“…Based on the observation that a sentence's focus receives main stress (see e.g. Chomsky 1971;Jackendoff 1972;Selkirk 1984), Szendr} oi (2001 proposes that Stress-Focus Correspondence (Zubizarreta 1998;Neeleman & Reinhart 1998: 333) holds in Hungarian.…”

“…Similar to preverbal focus, a preverbal vm is not compatible with preverbal negation (see Wedgwood 2006).…”