Anti-Agreement in Hungarian Possessors and External Possessors without Possessor Raising

Mark Newson

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Hungarian possessors change their case when moving from one DP internal position to another but appear to maintain it when moving to a position external to the possessive DP. This paper claims that this characterisation of the data is misleading and in fact there is no externalising movement. External possessors are generated as the arguments of an APPL head and receive an inherent case from this. To support this, it is first shown that the evidence in favour of a movement account is problematic. An alternative account of the data is proposed in which no external possessor movement is necessary.


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external possessors; Hungarian; anti-agreement

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/lsmll.2026.50.3.94-106
Date of publication: 2026-10-30 11:37:57
Date of submission: 2026-04-10 16:52:39


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