El + verb complex predicates in Hungarian

Authors

  • Éva Dékány CASTL, University of Tromsø

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7557/12.135

Keywords:

Hungarian verbal particles, argument structure, telicity, directionality, resultativity, measure functions

Abstract

This paper investigates the structure of complex predicates comprising the verbal particle el- (`away') and a verb in Hungarian. I show that el- has different meaning contributions to the predication when combined with different types of verbs. I argue that despite the three seemingly unrelated meanings of el-, two uses involve the same lexical item. In these unifiable cases I analyze el- as a measure function that can measure in both the spatial and the temporal domains.

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Published

2008-12-22