Nominative subjects of infinitives in Hungarian subject-control predicates: Postsyntactic copying and the overt realization of PRO

Authors

  • Kevin Kwong Cornell University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5209

Keywords:

Hungarian, infinitive, control, focus, case, agreement, PF, copying

Abstract

In Hungarian, the focused subject of the infinitival complement of a subject-control verb appears as a pronoun or lexical DP in nominative case. I propose that this nominative form realizes PRO at PF, but does not exist at Syntax, where PRO is caseless. PRO is overtly realized by postsyntactic copying of the phi-feature of case (and other material) from the controlling nominative matrix subject.

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Published

2022-05-05

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022): Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America

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Published by the LSA with permission of the author(s) under a CC BY 4.0 license.

How to Cite

Kwong, Kevin. 2022. “Nominative Subjects of Infinitives in Hungarian Subject-Control Predicates: Postsyntactic Copying and the Overt Realization of PRO”. Proceedings of the Linguistic Society of America 7 (1): 5209. https://doi.org/10.3765/plsa.v7i1.5209.