ConSOLE 30 2022 • University of Nantes

Scope ambiguities among suffixes in Hungarian: mood and modality at Logical Form

Timea Szarvas

University of Potsdam

sarvas@uni-potsdam.de
Hungarianscope ambiguitiessuffixesmoodmodalitylogical form

Abstract

The invariable order of verbal inflectional suffixes in Hungarian has been claimed to raise issues for the Mirror Principle. While the categories Mood, Tense and Modality can take scope over one another in various ways, this supposedly syntactic trait is not reflected in the morphological component. I propose a new analysis of the ambiguities, relocating their source from syntax proper to Logical Form. I show that affix movement at LF correctly predicts all possible and impossible scope relations.

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Timea Szarvas (2022). scope ambiguities among suffixes in hungarian: mood and modality at logical form. In Proceedings of ConSOLE 30, edited by Annie Holtz, Iva Kovač, Rasmus Puggaard-Rode, (pp. 102-124).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{sarvas-suffixes-hungarian-2022, title={Scope ambiguities among suffixes in Hungarian: mood and modality at Logical Form}, author={Timea Szarvas}, booktitle={Proceedings of ConSOLE 30}, year={2022}, pages={102-124}, editor={Annie Holtz and Iva Kovač and Rasmus Puggaard-Rode} }

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