On the syntactic construction természetesen hogy…
There are some syntactic variables in present-day Hungarian that are not unanimously
evaluated in the linguistic community of this country. One of these is the use of
constructions of the type természetesen hogy ‘of course that’. Broadly construed,
this involves a rather widespread range of phenomena. The paper, based on the previous
literature on this issue, asks the question of how it is possible that native speakers
of Hungarian use this type of constructions and what mental (analogical) linguistic
processes may underlie the production of such linguistic forms. The author tries to
argue that the appearance and growing incidence of this phenomenon is not in contradiction
with the system of Hungarian grammar. In fact, it can be related to a number of morphological
and syntactic processes, as well as general diachronic regularities, whereas its broader
systemic context shows certain signs of an ongoing linguistic change.
