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The landscape of universal quantification in Old Hungarian

Bende-Farkas, Ágnes (2015) The landscape of universal quantification in Old Hungarian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 62 (3). pp. 223-261. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

This paper presents the system of Old Hungarian expressions conveying universal or maximal readings, as found in Old Hungarian codices. The main empirical findigs are that (i) the OH suffix-keed could be a (temporal) universal quantifier. Expressions with such suffixes can help reconstruct quantifiers from the head-final stage of Hungarian. (ii) Old Hungarian had bare pronouns that acquired a bound, quantificational reading from long-distance operators. Against such a background, minden is claimed to be a quintessential strong D-quantifier: It could undergo raising, and its scope was flexible (within syntactic islands). (iii) These properties of minden are distinctive within the class of particle + indeterminate pronoun complexes (such as vala-ki lit. ‘vala-who’, ‘somebody’), which could be said to lack quantificational force.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > P0 Philology. Linguistics / filológia, nyelvészet
Depositing User: László Sallai-Tóth
Date Deposited: 05 Jul 2016 10:33
Last Modified: 30 Sep 2017 23:15
URI: http://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/37322

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