Acta Linguistica Hungarica, Vol. 59 (4), pp. 387–426 (2012) DOI: 10.1556/ALing.59.2012.4.1 PRAGMATIC MARKERS IN HUNGARIAN : SOME INTRODUCTORY REMARKS HANS-MARTIN GÄRTNER–BEÁTA GYURIS Research Institute for Linguistics Hungarian Academy of Sciences Benczúr u. 33. H–1068 Budapest Hungary {gaertner; gyuris}@nytud.hu Abstract: The purpose of these introductory remarks is to complement the following case studies by Ferenc Kiefer on majd ‘later (on), sooner or later’, Attila Péteri on hadd ‘let’, and Ildikó Vaskó on persze ‘of course’. What we will do is sketch a number of what we consider promising theoretical developments that have a bearing on the issues raised in these studies. In a section addressing issues of form (section 2), we discuss “cartographic” approaches to adverb(ial) hierarchies and the clausal “left periphery”, as well as pragmatic markers within clause types. In a section focusing on issues of interpretation (section 3), we deal with pragmatic markers from the perspective of “projective meaning” and “conversational moves”. Keywords: adverbs, adverbials, left periphery, clause types, speech acts, projective meaning, conversational moves Curiouser and curiouser! cried Alice 1. Introduction While work on this volume began within the framework of a German– Hungarian cooperation on “modal particles”, 1 we soon realized that, as far as Hungarian is concerned, we had to widen our views for at least the 1 For input and stimulating discussion, we wish to thank the presenters at the meetings on “Modal particles and sentence types. A contrastive view from Ger- man and Hungarian”, Katrin Axel, Donka Farkas, Magdalena Kaufmann, Stefan Kaufmann, Ferenc Kiefer, Jörg Meibauer, Attila Péteri, Ildikó Vaskó, and Malte Zimmermann, as well as further participants Regine Eckardt, Katalin É. Kiss, 1216–8076/$ 20.00 © 2012 Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest