The Hungarian Language: Past and Present
Long-distance agreement under focus movement in Hungarian,
and its implications for locality theory
Marcel Den Dikken
The empirical focus of this paper is on long-distance agreement phenomena
in Hungarian focus movement constructions. The paper addresses the question
of how foci that extract from embedded clauses can come to establish an
agreement and Case-checking relationship with the finite verb of the clause
into which they move. The discussion puts the Hungarian facts in a
cross-linguistic perspective by considering them against the background of
similar phenomena from Passamaquoddy, Tagalog, and Tsez; it carefully
considers the various theoretical options that are at our disposal when it
comes to the analysis of the Hungarian facts; and it presents detailed
analyses for the two ways in which long-distance focus fronting may proceed
in the language: resumption and successive-cyclic extraction.
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