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Passive potential affixation: syntax or lexicon?

Author(s) -

Anikó Lipták,

István Kenesei

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

acta linguistica academica

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.295

H-Index - 10

eISSN - 2560-1016

pISSN - 2559-8201

DOI - 10.1556/2062.2017.64.1.2

Subject(s) - affix , adjective , linguistics , syntax , verb , lexicon , typology , computer science , natural language processing , adverbial , artificial intelligence , noun , philosophy , history , archaeology

In this paper we will argue that contrary to the received view passive potential affixation in Hungarian primarily derives complex syntactic objects rather than adjectives. By means of a number of tests we show the differences between the two classes of items bearing the homophonous affix -ható/hető : one a nonfinite verb form, the other a lexicalized adjective. In addition to a syntactic analysis of this composite affix, a typology is provided for languages that have similar constructions

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