The syntax of Hungarian / Katalin É. Kiss.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kiss, Katalin É., author.

Series:

Cambridge syntax guides.

Cambridge syntax guides

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian language--Syntax.

Hungarian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 278 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. The analysis of Hungarian in the generative framework since the late Seventies has helped to bring phenomena which are non-overt in the English language into the focus of syntactic research. As Kiss shows, its results have been built into the hypotheses that make up universal grammar. The textbook explores issues at the centre of theoretical debates including the syntax and semantics of focus, the analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord. This useful guide will be welcomed by students and researchers working on syntax and those interested in Finno-Ugric languages.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction; 2 The topic...predicate articulation of the sentence; 3 The minimal predicate; 4 Focussing; 5 Quantification; 6 Negation; 7 The noun phrase; 8 The postpositional phrase; 9 Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases; 10 The subordinate clause; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-273) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-12838-2

1-280-43253-5

0-511-14846-1

0-511-30535-4

0-511-17797-6

0-511-04851-3

0-521-66939-1

0-511-75508-2

OCLC:

70743302