Propositional arguments

The project investigates the diachronic development of Hungarian structures with special interest on the development of non-finite forms (participial phrases, gerunds). It is concerned with the syntactic and morphological changes that happened during the last 600 years of the Hungarian language. The external properties (category, distribution, syntactic function) and the internal structure (realization of the argument structure of base verb, possibility of adjuncts, inflectional endings on the participle) of participial phrases are examined.