Assessment of Light Verb Constructions in Terms of Linguistic Correctness and Linguistic Appropriateness Cover Image

A funkcióigés szerkezetek megítélése a nyelvhelyesség és a nyelvi helyénvalóság szempontjából
Assessment of Light Verb Constructions in Terms of Linguistic Correctness and Linguistic Appropriateness

Author(s): István Lanstyák
Subject(s): Sociolinguistics
Published by: Fórum Kisebbségkutató Intézet
Keywords: light verb construction;linguistic correctness;linguistic adequacy;redundancy;formal style;impersonality;language ideologies

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyses the Hungarian language cultivators’ arguments against the use (even existence!) of light verb constructions, shedding light on the underlying language ideologies such as language purism, redundantism, systemism, brevism, moralism, extrudism, simplicism, percerptionism, aformalism, naturism, verbism, expressivism, homogenism, plebeianism, autonomism, Platonism. In the concluding section of the paper, the author reframes the cultivators’ arguments into a linguistic adequacy framework, thus demonstrating their potential usefulness.

  • Issue Year: XXII/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 53-78
  • Page Count: 26
  • Language: Hungarian