TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bacskai-Atkari, Julia
T1  - Marking Finiteness and Low Peripheries
JF  - Boundaries Crossed, at the Interfaces of Morphosyntax, Phonology, Pragmatics and Semantics
N2  - The article takes up on the observations made byKenesei (1994) regarding the position of the Hungarian interrogative marker -e in the clause and its distribution across clause types. Specifically, there are three crucial points: (i) the marker -e is related to the CP-domain, where clause typing is encoded; (ii) -e is obligatory in embedded clauses and optional in main clauses; (iii) -e is licensed in finite clauses only. I argue that certain clause-typing properties are reflected in the Hungarian clause in a lower functional domain, FP. In particular, finiteness and the interrogative nature of the clause are encoded here, as also indicated by focussing in non-interrogative clauses and by constituent questions, respectively. The marker -e is base-generated in the F head, as opposed to a designated FocP or TP/IP, allowing it to fulfil its clause-typing functions. Base-generation is crucial (as opposed to lowering from C) since it is able to capture the relatedness between -e and finiteness: -e is specified as [fin] and while the FP may be generated to host focussed constituents (including wh-elements) in non-finite clauses, a lexically [fin] head cannot be inserted.
KW  - Clause typing
KW  - Finiteness
KW  - Focus
KW  - Functional left peripheries
KW  - Interrogatives
KW  - Polar questions
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-90710-9
SN  - 978-3-319-90709-3
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90710-9_12
SN  - 0924-4670
VL  - 94
SP  - 183
EP  - 198
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  -