헝가리어 사동법에 대한 연구

Abstract

This paper is aimed to explore the generative processes of the hungarian causative constructions and to discuss on their specific characters, using the theory of the argument structure. It has been commonly observed that there are three different types of causative in typological research on causative constructions; lexical, morphological and syntactic. But the causativity in Hungarian is expressed morphologically with many kinds of derivational suffixes, which form oppositional correlations with transitive vs intransitive verb-pairs. The hungarian causative also can be interpreted both in causative vs. transitive constructions according to their verbal aspects and the existence of causee argument. Thus the causativity in Hungarian is regarded as interpretative category, where there are principled semantic differences correlative with the alternative case marking patterns and grammatical function status of the causee argument. The causative construction in Hungarian tends to show the process of lexicalization through the restrictions of causative verb formation, the arbitrary selection of two different variations of causative verbal suffixes and the deletion of causee argument.