Ellipsis in Hungarian

This course will discuss cross-linguistically infrequent types of ellipsis in Hungarian, such as verbal particle answers to polar questions (cf. 1), and deletion of the second part of synthetic adjectival compounds (cf. 2), both of which seem to violate the Lexical Integrity condition at first sight.

I will provide diagnostics of ellipsis in these constructions and consider the implications of the data for the theory of ellipsis, and many issues that play a role in structural approaches to ellipsis, such as the lexical identity condition on stranded material and the move-and-delete vs. in-situ analysis of remnant formation. The data will also have repercussions for the analysis of verb-particle constructions, compounding as well as the expression of lexical focus and polarity.