Toward a cognitive dependency grammar of Hungarian

Abstract

The paper presents the key tenets of a novel approach to the structure of Hungarian clauses that combines aspects of cognitive linguistics and dependency grammar. Clauses are given a multigraph description (as in XDG), with separate semantic graphs dedicated to frame semantic relations (S1), speech function (S2) and contextualization (S3). These stand in symbolic association with formal dimensions pertaining to morphology (F1), word order (F2) and prosody (F3). It is shown that the finite verb, or a catena of elements including the verb, is central for both S1 and S2, functioning as a 'clause within the clause'. Further, the clause is shown to manifest modularity, whereby a single node in one dimension may correspond to a catena of interconnected elements in another. 1 As Langacker (2008: 6) puts it, "all valid grammatical constructs are symbolic, hence reducible to form-meaning pairings". 2 CDG is different from Hudson's Word Grammar (WG) (Hudson, 1990(Hudson, , 2007(Hudson, , 2010, which is also CL-oriented and dependency-based, by more closely following a Langackerian conception of cognitive linguistics (Langacker, 1987(Langacker, , 2008. 3 For example, instead of the notion of "focus", I work with the concept of "overriding" (see Section 3.1), and "topic" is treated as a subtype of "contextualizers" (3.2). Instead of asking questions such as what position a constituent "occupies" or "moves into", both the function and the form (e.g. linearization) of elements are defined in relational terms, with respect to other elements in the syntagmatic chain.

Annotation of person marking constructions in the Corpus of Hungarian Lyrical Poetry

“…2017. For instance, in the D1 dimension of the multi-dimensional functional cognitive model of the Hungarian sentence elaborated by Imrényi (2013Imrényi ( , 2017Imrényi ( , 2019, relations between the verb and linguistic elements referring to the participants and circumstances of the event expressed by the verb are described as dependency relations.…”