Abstract
Abstract This paper examines aspectual cognate objects in Hungarian. Its main contribution lies in the syntactic and semantic analysis of three classes of accusative pseudo-objects, which are literally not cognate with the prototypical unergative verb they accompany but are demonstrated to be non-subcategorized and non-thematic elements that have the same role and the same syntactic and semantic properties as aspectual cognate objects in languages where these nominals are both semantically and morphologically related to the verb. In addition, the paper fills a typologically unexpected gap, considering that Hungarian, as a strong satellite-framed language, is predicted to have aspectual cognate object constructions.
Highlights
There is a relatively rich literature on various accusative elements in Hungarian such as thematic direct objects, non-subcategorized pseudo-objects (POs) or measure phrases, which contributes to our better understanding of their distribution, syntactic behaviour or aspectual role
I wish to contribute to the vast literature on ACOs by putting forth a novel, syntactic and semantic analysis of the above three classes of POs, which are literally not cognate with the prototypical unergative verb they accompany but are demonstrated to be elements that have the same role as ACOs in languages where these objects are semantically and morphologically related to the verb
I contributed to the vast literature on ACOs by putting forth a novel, syntactic and semantic analysis of Hungarian
Summary
There is a relatively rich literature on various accusative elements in Hungarian such as thematic direct objects (with special focus on created/consumed objects), non-subcategorized pseudo-objects (POs) or measure phrases, which contributes to our better understanding of their distribution, syntactic behaviour or aspectual role I wish to contribute to the vast literature on ACOs by putting forth a novel, syntactic and semantic analysis of the above three classes of POs, which are literally not cognate with the prototypical unergative verb they accompany but are demonstrated to be elements that have the same role as ACOs in languages where these objects are semantically and morphologically related to the verb.
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