On a much-debated Hungarian predicate: Verb or participle? Syntactic or lexical treatment?

This paper deals with a very special Hungarian predicate type exhibiting a complexity of marked properties. After a summary and demonstration of the relevant features, I briefly outline the most important (and, often,radically different) types of analyses. Then I offer a detailed, comparative and critical discussion of four recent accounts, arguing for treating the predicate as a participle (rather than a finite verb form) and for handling its specific traits in the lexicon in the framework of Lexical-Functional Grammar.