Verb object dependencies in Hungarian and English : a DRT-based account
Ágnes Bende-Farkas · OPUS Publication Server of the University of Stuttgart (University of Stuttgart) · 2002
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).