Word order of complementizers (Hungarian)

CmpzSC: The complementizer appears at the front of the subordinate clause.


(1) mond-t-am a testvér-em-nek, hogy men-j-ünk mozi-ba.

say-pst-1sg the sibling-1sg-dat that go-imp-1pl cinema-ill

‘I told my brother that we should go to the cinema.’


(2) akkor megy-ünk mozi-ba, amikor akar-unk.

that_time go-1pl cinema-ill when want-1pl

‘We can go to the cinema whenever we want to.’


In Hungarian, conjunctions are always the first elements of the subordinate clause (cf. Balogh 2000d).

Author: 

Nikolett F. Gulyás