TOPIC, FOCUS, AND CONFIGURATIONALITY -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- INTRODUCTION -- Topic and Focus in German Linguistics. -- Overview of the individual papers of the volume. -- REFERENCES -- WORD ORDER IN THE MIDDLE FIELD OF THE GERMAN SENTENCE -- 0. The problem and its scope -- 1. Restrictions on DO, IO and PP. -- 2. The place of the subject: The distribution within the middle field. -- 3. Word order restrictions within VP: across all grammatical relations in general or with distinctions of verbal sub categorization? -- 4. Defin iteness factors. -- 5. Conclusions. -- REFERENCES -- CONFIGURATIONALITY IN DISGUISE: WORD ORDER AND THE V-2 PROPERTY -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Dutch-German (dis-)similarities. -- 3. The grammar of verb-second. -- 4. Verb-second and VP-internal nominatives. -- 5. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- RERERENCES -- REMARKSON THE CONFIGURATIONALITY-ISSUE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. The Configurationality of Hungarian: Two Hypotheses. -- 2. "Configurationality" as a Parameter ofX-bar Theory. -- 3. The Structure of Clauses vs. NP's in Hungarian and the Category-Neutral Base Hypothesis. -- 4. Subject-Object (A)Symmetries: A Potential Test of Configurationality. -- 5. Configurational "Free-Word-Order" Languages and the Problem of Acquisition. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE EXPRESSION OF LOGICAL SCOPE IN HUNGARIAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Types of operators. -- 2. Two types of sentences. -- 4. Topic and logical scope. -- 5. Conclusions. -- REFERENCES -- THE SYNTAX OF FOCUS AND ADVERBIALS IN GERMAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Some central concepts of functional sentence analysis. -- 2. Overt focus inducers. -- 3. The syntax of adverbials. -- 4. The syntax of bound focus. -- 5. Is focus configurational in German? -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- HOCUS, FOCUS, AND VERB TYPES IN HUNGARIAN INFINITIVECONSTRUCTIONS -- ABSTRACT.

0. Introduction. -- 1. Preliminary Remarks: Hungarian Sentence Patterns. -- 2. Infinitive Constructions in Hungarian. -- 3. Conclusions. -- REFERENCES -- ON THE LOGIC OF WORD ORDER IN HUNGARIAN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. Neutral and Marked Sentences. -- 3. The Order of Operators -- 4. The Syntactic Relevance of Semantic Factors. -- 5. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- EPISTEMIC POSSIBILITY AND FOCUS -- ABSTRACT -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- THE ORDER AND SCOPE OF OPERATORS IN THE HUNGARIAN SENTENCE -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Introduction. -- 2. The D-structure of the Hungarian sentence. -- 3. Wh-movement into the base-generated operator positions. -- 4. Propositionaloperators. -- 5. Operators in Left Dislocation. -- 6. Quantifier-Raising. -- 7. Multiple questions. -- 8. Quantifiers in the NP. -- 9. A stylistic rule. -- 10. Semantically based ordering restrictions. -- 11. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FOCUSSING ON FOCUS IN HUNGARIAN -- ABSTRACT -- References -- DRESSED OR NAKED: THE CASE OF THE PP IN HUNGARIAN -- ABSTRACT -- 0. Introduction. -- 1. Some constructions. -- 2. A classification of PP's in Hungarian. -- 3. The phrase-structure rule of the PP. -- 4. Pomp, the peripheral position of the PP. -- 5. Focussing properties of the PP. -- 6. The demonstrative construction. -- 7. The naked postpositions, the category of intransitive postpositions. -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- ON QUESTION SENTENCES IN HUNGARIAN -- ABSTRACT -- Introduction. -- Preliminaries. -- An alternative explanation. -- Movement. -- Language typology. -- Conclusions. -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- TOPIC, THEME AND THE GERMAN INITIAL FIELD -- ABSTRACT -- 1. The Initial Field. -- 2. Some analyses. -- 3. Topic structures and deletion in COMP. -- 4. Theme structures. -- 5. Expletive es. -- 6. Summary. -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES -- SOME REMARKS ON FOCUS PROJECTION -- ABSTRACT.

0. Introduction. -- 1. What is focus projection ? -- 2. Focus assignment. -- 3. Three theories of F-projection. -- 4. Focus Projection in German. -- 5. Conclusion. -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- FROM THE DEFINITENESS EFFECT TO LEXICAL INTEGRITY -- ABSTRACT -- 1. Current views on the definiteness effect, and the problem of Hungarian. -- 2. The DE in action. -- 3. Partial neutralization of the DE. -- 4. The state of the art. -- 5. Verb meanings. -- 6. Substantiation in syntax and semantics. -- 7. Generalized lexical integers. -- 8. Wandering parts of integers. -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.