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Overt Scope in Hungarian
Author(s) -
Brody Michael,
Szabolcsi Anna
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
syntax
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 24
eISSN - 1467-9612
pISSN - 1368-0005
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9612.00055
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , syntax , quantifier (linguistics) , feature (linguistics) , matching (statistics) , focus (optics) , linguistics , computer science , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , mathematics , programming language , philosophy , statistics , physics , optics
The focus of this paper is the syntax of inverse scope in Hungarian, a language that largely disambiguates quantifier scope at Spell–Out. Inverse scope is attributed to alternate orderings of potentially large chunks of structure, but with appeal to base–generation, as opposed to non–feature–driven movement as in Kayne 1998. The proposal is developed within mirror theory and conforms to the assumption that structures are antisymmetrical. The paper also develops a matching notion of scope in terms of featural domination, as opposed to c–command, and applies it to otherwise problematic cases of pied piping. Finally, the interaction of different quantifier types is examined, and the patterns are explained invoking morphological considerations on one hand and A′–reconstruction on the other.