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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod


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Title: Approaches to Hungarian
Subtitle: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference
Edited By: Tibor Laczkó
Catherine Ringen
György Rákosi
URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/atoh.12
Series Title: Approaches to Hungarian 12
Description:

This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena in other languages. The volume includes a syntax-based analysis of Hungarian external causatives in the framework of the Minimalist Program (MP); argumentation for the lack of phonological or acoustic evidence for secondary stress in Hungarian; an MP approach to a Hungarian modal construction with a counterfactual, reproaching reading; empirical arguments for assuming that in the case of embedded sentences factivity is irrelevant for syntax, and clauses are differentiated by referentiality; a comprehensive semantic account of result states in Hungarian; a claim that certain paradigmatic/morphophonological variation in the Hungarian verbal paradigm is caused by conflicting paradigmatic pressures; a purely interface-based MP account of the syntax of identificational focus in Hungarian; and an analysis of arbitrarily interpreted null subjects in Hungarian with third person, plural agreement on the finite and infinitival verb. The volume will be of interest not just to scholars working on Hungarian, but to a general audience of generative linguists.

Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: John Benjamins
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Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Syntax
Generative Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Hungarian

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Format: Electronic
ISBN-13: 9789027285072
Prices: U.S. $ 158.00
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Format: Hardback
ISBN-13: 9789027204820
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