NP Movement, Operator Movement, and Scrambling in Hungarian
Katalin É. Kiss · 1995
Abstract Section 2 of this paper will put forth a Hungarian sentence structure from which all and only the grammatical orders of the major constituents of a sentence, as well as the interpretation and stress differences of the various permutations are deducible. The sentence structure argued for divides primarily into a topic and a VP, which occupy the specifier and complement positions of a TenseP, respectively. The VP consists of a flat V-initial V’ component, a preverbal focus located in the specifier position of VP, and quantifiers left-adjoined to VP. That is: Section 3 of the paper will point out the differences between the proposed sentence structure and alternative analyses of Hungarian (those in Brody (1990), Horvath (this volume), and Maracz (1990)), and will discuss the empirical evidence supporting the proposed approach.