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Title:
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Verb-Object Dependencies in Hungarian and English
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Author:
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Agnes Bende-Farkas
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Email:
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Homepage:
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http://www.ims.uni-stuttgart.de/~agnes/
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Degree Awarded:
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University of Stuttgart
, Department of Machine Translation
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Degree Date:
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2002
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Linguistic Subfield(s):
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Semantics
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Subject Language(s):
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English
Hungarian
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Director(s):
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Thomas Zimmerman
Hans Kamp
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Abstract:
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This thesis is about morphologically marked novelty-familiarity requirements imposed by a class of Hungarian verbs on their internal arguments. The framework is Discourse Representation Theory, and argument realisation is rendered essentially as sentence internal anaphora resolution.
The thesis consists in two major parts: The first part contains a uniform analysis of the Definiteness Effect in English and in Hungarian. This is motivated by the similarity of semantic side-effects in the two languages, even though the factors responsible for the Definiteness Effect are different (syntax in English and the lexicon viz a well circumscribed verb class in Hungarian).
The second part is about the prefixed variants of Definiteness Effect verbs. Once prefixed with a particular perfective prefix, these verbs become triggers of anaphoric presuppositions. The analysis offers a semantic composition method for this particular class of complex predicate that can account for the loss of the Definiteness Effect and for the additional presuppositional effects.
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