On presenting something in English and Hungarian

In this paper I present an analysis of the English verb present as used in constructions like present something to somebody and present somebody with something. I systematically compare it with its two Hungarian counterparts, with particular attention to the partially different behavior of their derived nominal equivalents. In Section 2, I summarize my analysis in Laczkó (1991) in the classical framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), then in Section 3 I outline my modified account couched in the ver-sion of the Lexical Mapping Theory (LMT) component of LFG proposed by Ackerman (1992) and Zaenen (1993). This is followed by some concluding remarks in Section 4.