syntax and semantics of the resumptive dependency in Hungarian focus-raising constructions

Hungarian Copula Constructions in Dependency Syntax and Parsing

Copula constructions are problematic in the syntax of most languages. The paper describes three different dependency syntactic methods for handling copula constructions: function head, content head and complex label analysis. Furthermore, we also propose a POS-based approach to copula detection. We evaluate the impact of these approaches in computational parsing, in two parsing experiments for ...

The syntax and semantics of left-node raising in Japanese

In this paper, I argue (i) that Japanese has constructions that are almost the exact mirror images of the right-node raising constructions in English, and (ii) that the properties of those constructions, which I refer to as left-node raising constructions, can be captured straightforwardly if and only if the content values of domain objects, not those of signs, are assumed to be the principal l...

The Syntax of Hungarian Auxiliaries: A Dependency Grammar Account

This paper addresses a hot topic of Hungarian syntactic research, viz. the treatment of “discontinuous” constructions involving auxiliaries. The case is made for a projective dependency grammar (DG) account built on the notions of rising and catenae (Groß and Osborne, 2009). Additionally, the semantic basis of the dependency created by rising is described with a view to analogy and construction...

Focus Fronting and the Syntax-semantics Interface

On Syntax-Semantics of Gapping Constructions