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Article: "Case suffixes", postpositions, and the phonological word in Hungarian *.(Report)
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- Linguistics: an interdisciplinary journal of the language sciences
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Abstract
In this article I propose a new construction algorithm for the phonological word in Hungarian. Based on a detailed discussion of the differences between so-called 'postpositions" and 'case suffixes', I show that both types of adpositional elements are of the same morphosyntactic category, and that phonological word status depends not on an arbitrary division between affixes and syntactically free items, but on phonological properties of the respective adpositions." Bisyllabic adpositions form phonological words on their own, while monosyllabic adpositions are integrated into the phonological word of their lexical head. Generalizing this result, I argue ...