Aspects of Hungarian Syntax from a Lexicalist Perspective.
Tibor Laczkó · REAL-d (Hungarian Academy of Sciences) · 2017
Until 2005, my main research areas had been the structure of noun phrases, nominalization, possessive constructions, participial constructions, and bracketing paradoxes in Hungarian in systematic comparison with English in the theoretical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG).In 2005, I received a Fulbright research grant to Stanford University and Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).At PARC I was introduced to XLE (Xerox Linguistic Environment), the computational implementational platform of LFG.In 2008, at the Department of English Linguistics at the University of Debrecen I founded the Lexical-Functional Grammar Research Group, whose main project is to develop an LFG-XLE grammar of Hungarian (HunGram).Our HunGram project forced me and my colleagues to deal with LFG-theoretic and XLE-implementational aspects of the analysis of Hungarian finite clauses.My first single-authored paper and our joint papers on these topics came out in 2010.I have attended all the annual LFG conferences since then, and I gave at least one presentation at these conferences (sometimes two or three).In addition, I gave presentations at some ICSH conferences (International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian) and at the XLE workshops.In 2013, I was awarded a Péter Hajdú Guest Researcher grant at the Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, many thanks to director István Kenesei for the hospitality I received at the institute.This grant gave me an enormous research impetus.In this dissertation, I am reporting the results of 8 years of LFG-theoretic and XLEimplementational research.For valuable comments and suggestions, I am grateful to the participants of the conferences at which I gave presentations.I am also grateful to the anonymous reviewers of my publications, and, in particular, I am grateful to Tracy Holloway King and Miriam Butt, the constant editors of the LFG Conference Proceedings, for their very careful and helpful