The Syntax of Hungarian / Edition 1

by Katalin É. Kiss

Overview

Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical features of the language, focusing on the phenomena that have proved to be theoretically the most relevant and have attracted the most attention. Katalin É. Kiss's textbook explores issues currently at the center of theoretical debates, including the syntax and semantics of focus, the analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521669399
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	06/13/2002
Series:	Cambridge Syntax Guides
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction; 2. The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence; 3. The minimal predicate; 4. Focusing; 5. Quantification; 6. Negation; 7. The noun phrases; 8. The postpositional phrase; 9. Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases; 10. The subordinate clause.

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"Readers will definitely benefit from the author's extensive analysis of Hungarian syntax, supplied with ample illustration, a profound insight into preceding and contemporary research in various theoretical frameworks, and an extensive reference list, the traits of an excellent composition well deserving to be featured in he prestigious Cambridge Syntax Guides series." IJGLSA

"Readers will definitely benefit from the author's extensive analysis of Hungarian syntax, supplied with ample illustration, a profound insight into preceding and contemporary research in various theoretical frameworks, and an extensive reference list, the traits of an excellent composition well deserving to be featured in the prestigious 6Icambridge Syntax Guides^r series." IJGLSA

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"Readers will definitely benefit from the author's extensive analysis of Hungarian syntax, supplied with ample illustration, a profound insight into preceding and contemporary research in various theoretical frameworks, and an extensive reference list, the traits of an excellent composition well deserving to be featured in he prestigious Cambridge Syntax Guides series."

"Readers will definitely benefit from the author's extensive analysis of Hungarian syntax, supplied with ample illustration, a profound insight into preceding and contemporary research in various theoretical frameworks, and an extensive reference list, the traits of an excellent composition well deserving to be featured in the prestigious Cambridge Syntax Guides series."

From the Publisher

Primarily adhering to the basic outline of Hungarian sentence structure that she proposed in the late 1970s, based on a generative syntactic theory, Kiss (linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) also incorporates recent research from Hungary and abroad to set out the syntax of the Finno-Ugric language. Her account is broader and more recent than the other similar work. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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