Veronika Hegedűs & Irene Vogel (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. 233.,Journal of Linguistics

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Veronika Hegedűs & Irene Vogel (eds.), Approaches to Hungarian 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2020. Pp. 233.
Journal of Linguistics ( IF 0.8 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-21 , DOI: 10.1017/s0022226721000049
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The 16th volume of the Approaches to Hungarian series (currently published by John Benjamins) contains 10 papers selected from presentations at the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (ICSH13), held in Budapest in June 2017, organized by the (then) Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The papers presented in this volume discuss various topics from the realm of syntax (synchronic and diachronic), semantics, pragmatics, phonology and phonetics. All topics are related to language phenomena observable in Hungarian, but the description of the data and their theoretical analysis do not stop here. In most papers, the patterns are set against and compared with relevant data from other languages –German, English, Turkish, Hindi, Nepali, Spanish, Arabic and Serbo-Croatian among others – leading to discoveries about language-particular differences as well as cross-linguistic commonalities and to theoretical advances on long-standing research questions. As the following overview of the contents of the volume shows, the book contributes to many currently investigated issues in theoretical linguistics, with some well-known themes related to Hungarian, such as vowel harmony, stress placement and perception, the focus– background subdivision of clauses and syntactic agreement. Julia Bacskai-Atkari's contribution, ‘Non-degree equatives and reanalysis: A case study of doubling patterns in German and Hungarian’, looks at the status and the development of non-degree equative markers in German and the historically unrelated Hungarian. Both languages exhibit doubling patterns in which a matrix equative element (als in als wie and oly in oly(an) mint) was reanalyzed, from the matrix clause as the C head of an embedded clause, undergoing a case of relabeling. The author argues that in the case of Hungarian, we can be certain that the combination of the two elements did not correspond to the combination of two existing complementizers, and this finding allows us to interpret the observed changes in the same way in German as well. The paper also shows that degree equatives are more restricted than non-degree equatives when it comes to the use of operators and that syntactic innovations affecting equatives always start from nondegree equatives. In the paper ‘Anatomy of Hungarian aspectual particles’, Anikó Csirmaz & Benjamin Slade show that one can provide a uniform, templatic meaning to the

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