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Two independent purposes have been pursued in the analysis of Hungarian grammatical phenomena presented in this book: the purpose of achieving maximal descriptive adequacy in areas of Hungarian syntax lacking even observationally adequate descriptions; and the purpose of achieving explanatory adequacy, deducing as many facts of the language as possible from the system of abstract principles constituting Universal Grammar. The two purposes have led in the same direction: it has turned out that it is the descriptively most adequate analysis that can be derived most straightforwardly from the interaction of theoretical principles. That is, Government-Binding Theory loses practically and typologically different from the languages that originally motivated it.
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© 1987 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, Hungary
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Kiss, K.É. (1987). Conclusion. In: Configurationality in Hungarian. Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3703-1_7
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