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Hungarian
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 64.95Hungarian is spoken by 12-14 million people worldwide. A unique language, completely unrelated to the languages of its neighbouring countries, it boasts a grammar full of complex features and a vocabulary deriving largely from Asia. Hungarian addresses current issues in the description of languages and applies up-to-date research techniques to Hungarian.... more...
The Syntax of Hungarian
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 38.00Clearly 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. more...
Intonation and Stress
Palgrave Macmillan 2002; US$ 133.00This is the first comprehensive account of Hungarian stress and intonation to appear in English. The emphasis is on description, but a large number of theoretical issues are also dealt with in an original way. Hungarian is a Uralic or Finno-Ugric language spoken by over thirteen million people in Central Europe. The study of its stress and intonation... more...
Event Structure and the Left Periphery
Springer 2007; US$ 54.99Provides results in a field of research examining the syntactic and semantic consequences of event structure. This volume examines the hypothesis that event structure correlates with word order, the presence or absence of the verbal particle, the [+/- specific] feature of the internal argument, negation, and negative quantification, among others. more...
Ocean at the Window
University of Minnesota Press 1977; US$ 35.00Hungary, after World War II, was a country torn apart by political conflict. Hungarians struggled to survive a long alliance with Germany, Soviet occupation, assumption of power by the Communist part, and the bloody revolution of 1956. The years since that uprising have witnessed the consolidation of a single-party socialist state producing a profound... more...
The Year of the Hare
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 14.00Suddenly realizing what's important in life (with the help of a bunny), a man quits his job and heads to the countryside in this internationally bestselling comic novel. "Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on... more...
Approaches to Hungarian
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2009; US$ 158.00This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts in other languages as well. The volume includes an... more...
Grammar from the Human Perspective
John Benjamins Publishing Company 2006; US$ 165.00The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded in the grammatical expression of spatial relations.... more...
Journey by Moonlight
Pushkin Press 2002; US$ 10.19While on his honeymoon in Italy, Mihály "loses" his bride at a provincial station and embarks on a chaotic and bizarre journey that leads him finally to Rome. more...
Demonstratives in Interaction
John Benjamins Publishing Company 1997; US$ 173.00This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes and explains the developing use of se based on a... more...









