'My enemy's enemy is my friend'. Similarities motivated by contrasts in Hungarian sentence structure
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Archívum: REAL
Gyűjtemény: Status = In Press
Subject = P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom: P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Subject = P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom: PH Finno-Ugrian, Basque languages and literatures / finnugor és baszk nyelvek és irodalom: PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom
Type = Book Section
Cím:
'My enemy's enemy is my friend'. Similarities motivated by contrasts in Hungarian sentence structure
Létrehozó:
Imrényi, András
Kiadó:
John Benjamins
Dátum:
2022-10
Téma:
P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
PH04 Hungarian language and literature / magyar nyelv és irodalom
Tartalmi leírás:
In Hungarian generative grammar, the terms topic and focus designate structural positions associated with logico-semantic functions. The present chapter highlights the fact that elements sharing the behaviour of “topics” and “foci” are highly varied, and that logico-semantic definitions only capture prioritized subsets of the relevant data. I argue that preverbal, inversion-triggering elements (“foci” and the negative particle) are overriders, with their semantic commonality depending on relationships of contrast vis-à-vis a baseline clause type, that of neutral positive declarative clauses. With regard to sentence-initial, weakly stressed expressions (“topics” and “sentence adverbials”), I propose that they are contextualizers, generating supporting context for the processing of a message. Here, the baseline can be identified as the situation where no explicit contextualization is necessary. A general conclusion emerging from the analyses is that two patterns may be similar indirectly, by virtue of standing in contrast with a third one. This can be referred to as the ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’ principle of linguistic organization.
Nyelv:
angol
Típus:
Book Section
PeerReviewed
info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
Formátum:
text
Azonosító:
Imrényi, András (2022) 'My enemy's enemy is my friend'. Similarities motivated by contrasts in Hungarian sentence structure. In: Analogy and contrast in language: Perspectives from cognitive linguistics. Human Cognitive Processing . John Benjamins, Amsterdam. (In Press)
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