Author: Ackerman, Farrell and Gert Webelhuth

Year: 1997

Title: The composition of of (dis)continuous predicates:
  lexical or syntactic?

Abstract:  We examine Hungarian complex predicates consisting of
of a syntactically separable preverb bearing person/number marking
and a verbal stem.  We suggest that the person/number marking is
best interpreted as an oblique pronominal satisfying the argument
requirements of the complex predicate composed of the preverb and
verb stem.  Such data provide evidence for the assumption that
predicates expressed by several syntactically independent elements are
better analyzed as associated with lexical representations than as
composed in constituent structure.