Hungarian linguistics / edited by Ferenc Kiefer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kiefer, Ferenc.

Series:

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe ; v. 4.

Linguistic & literary studies in Eastern Europe, 0165-7712 ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hungarian language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (607 p.)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : Benjamins, 1982.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume contains papers on Hungarian general linguistics. 'Hungarian' here means that the work of these authors either centers around the Hungarian language or has close ties to present-day Hungarian linguistics, or both. Topics include: philosophy of language, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, history of (Hungarian) linguistics, phonology, syntax, typology.

Contents:

HUNGARIAN LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright; Table of content; Introduction; ON THE RECONSTRUCTION OF PROTO-MEANINGS; HE IS ONLY JOKING (Joke, metaphor and language development); Implicit joke marks; Deviant semiotic strategies; Faulty thinking as a structural principle; The structure of content; The verbal structure as action; Ontogenetic aspects of jokes; Precisions and corrections; Poetry is also joking; The metaphor and the joke: disparities; Infantile sources of metaphor; Structure and function of metaphors; Joke-land and Metaphoria: a tentative synthesis

Children's metaphorsLanguage is joking; Acknowledgement; References; ON THE SYNTAX OF THE NEGATIVE AUXILIARY IN SAMOYED; NON-APPLICABILITY AS A TEST FOR CATEGORY DEFINITIONS; 1. Introduction; 2. The two Gap-Fillers; 3. Aspect in Hungarian; 4. Summary; INTRANSITIVE-TRANSITIVE DERIVATIONAL SUFFIXES IN HUNGARIAN; Appendix I.; Appendix II.; Appendix III.; Appendix IV.; Appendix V.; Appendix VI.; Glossary; LUKÁCS'S IDEAS ON LANGUAGE; THE REINCARNATION OF RAISING (or how to raise NPs without a raising rule); THE ASPECTUAL SYSTEM OF HUNGARIAN; SAMUEL BRASSAI'S THEORY OF THE SENTENCE

DEEP STRUCTURE CASES REINTERPRETEDEXISTENTIAL RELATIONS IN 'HOGY'- SENTENCES (SENTENCES CONTAINING A THAT-CLAUSE) IN HUNGARIAN; FOREIGN LANGUAGE ENVIRONMENT AND LINGUISTIC CHANGE: TWO EXAMPLES; 1. Vowel harmony; 2. Recognizability of stems (RS); SUBJECT OR TOPIC IN HUNGARIAN: SOME PSYCHOLINGUISTIC EVIDENCE TO INCREASE THE CONFUSION; 1. Introductory remarks; Summary of the procedure and the design of the stimulus material; Is topic or subject coreferent with the zero element; Some data on three NP sentences; Speculative conclusions; AFFIXED PERSON-MARKING PARADIGMS - A HISTORY AND TYPOLOGY

Correlations in the properties of person-marking(PM) paradigmsThe position of person-marking (PM) affixes and the serial type of the language; Directions of typological changes in the languages investigated; The origin of person-marking (PM) affixes; Types of affixed person-marking (PM) paradigms; 1Pers and 2Pers versus 3Pers; Similarities between verbal and possessive person-markers; Conservativity of affixed person-marking; MODELTHEORETIC SEMANTICS OF PERFORMATIVES; Austin's distinction revisited; Austin's objection revisited; Denoting changes

ON THE FORMATION OF THE CONCEPT OF 'LINGUISTIC SIGN' AND ON STOIC LANGUAGE DOCTRINEABSTRACT /w/ IN HUNGARIAN; Introduction; The Facts; The Minor Rule Feature Analysis; The Allomorphy Analysis; The Abstract Analysis

Notes:

"Most of the papers were originally written in Hungarian"--p. 6.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-32883-6

9786613328830

90-272-8065-7