Verb clusters : a study of Hungarian, German and Dutch / edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Henk van Riensdijk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English with some Hungarian, German, and Dutch.

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Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This similarity is, of course, unexpected since Hungarian is not an Indo-European language like the Germanic language group. Instead it appears that the clustering, inversion and roll-up patterns found may constitute an areal feature. This book presents the relevant language data in considerable detail, taking into account also the variation observed, for example, among dialects. But it also discusses the various analytical approaches that can be brought to bear on this set of phenomena. In particular, there are various hypotheses as to what is the underlying driving force behind cluster formation: stress patterns, aspectual features, morpho- syntactic constraints? And the analytical approaches are closely linked to a number of questions that are at the core of current syntactic theorizing: does head movement exist or should all apparent verb displacement be reduced to remnant movement, are morphology and syntax really just different sides of the same coin?

Verb Clusters -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC page -- Table of contents -- Verb clusters -- 1. Opening remarks -- 2. Some properties of verb clusters: The view from Germanic -- 2.1. Is there a cluster? -- 2.2. Adjacency -- 2.3. Partial movement and nominalization -- 2.4. Clause union and transparency phenomena -- 2.5. Morphological properties -- 2.6. Trigger verbs -- 2.7. Ordering within a verb cluster -- 2.8. Approaches to the analysis of verb clusters in Germanic -- 3. The view from Hungarian -- 3.1. Is there a cluster? Three types of infinitival constructions.

3.2. The verbs that cluster -- 3.3. Analyzing verb clusters -- 4. Outlook -- Acknowledgements -- References -- West Germanic verb clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. West Germanic verb clusters -- 2.1. The distribution of two-verb clusters -- 2.2. The distribution of three-verb clusters -- 3. Questionnaire-based study of German verb clusters3 -- 3.1. Outline of the questionnaire -- 3.2. Goal and scope of the questionnaire -- 3.3. Consultants -- 3.4. Summary of results -- 4. Empirical generalizations -- 4.1. What are verb cluster languages? -- 4.2. Generalizations of the inversion patterns.

5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- A. Data and inversion patterns -- B. Questionnaire -- C. Other statistical results -- Hungarian verbal clusters -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Roll-up -- 3. Particle climbing -- 4. Látszik s̀eem' -- a stress-avoiding verb that does not trigger particle climbing -- 5. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- I SURVEY 1 -- 3 Question 3 -- II SURVEY 2 -- III THE QUESTIONNAIRES -- Clustering theories* -- 1. Verb clusters -- 2. Headedness and constituency -- 2.1. Extended headedness -- 2.2. Inheritance versus reanalysis -- 2.3. Why OV?

2.4. Limits of extended headedness -- 3. Movement and antisymmetry -- 4. The Hungarian connection -- 4.1. Preverbs and particles -- 5. Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- R̀̀oll-up'' structures and morphological words* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Adverbials on the right -- 3. V-raising in Hungarian -- Notes -- References -- The structure of clusters -- 1. Modeling inflection -- 1.1. The language CAT -- 1.2. Inflectional systems as an instantiation of CAT -- 1.3. Some inflectional systems -- 1.4. Verb (Projection) Raising as an instance of CAT -- 2. The Hungarian verbal system.

2.1. The verbal system without VMs -- 2.2. The verbal system with VMs -- 2.3. Is roll-up really lexical? -- Notes -- References -- A stress-based approach to climbing* -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Stress in Hungarian -- 3. Stress-driven focus movement -- 4. Particle climbing in a stress-based approach -- 5. Climbing: Syntactic XP-movement -- 6. Cross-linguistic comparison: The Basque particle ba -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Particles and phonologically defective predicates* -- 1. Phrasal and head particles in Dutch -- 2. Light and heavy verbal modifiers in Hungarian.

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