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Az elmúlt négy év folyamán, az előzetes terveknek megfelelően elkészült és megjelent a Nagyszótár első két kötete (www.nytud.hu/publ/nszt) 1119 és 1550 lapon. A publikált első kötet tartalmazza a szótár forrásanyagának teljes... more
Az elmúlt négy év folyamán, az előzetes terveknek megfelelően elkészült és megjelent a Nagyszótár első két kötete (www.nytud.hu/publ/nszt) 1119 és 1550 lapon. A publikált első kötet tartalmazza a szótár forrásanyagának teljes bibliográfiáját és az egyéb segédleteket: az Elekfi László által készített ragozási szótár kódjainak részletes feloldását. A második kötet az A-Azsúroz címszavak közötti szóállományt tartalmazza. A publikált köteteken túlmenően kéziratban legalább első változatban elkészültek már a B és C betűs szócikkek is, ezek szerkesztése, javítása folyamatban van. Az OTKA-keretből foglalkoztatott Varga Éva Katalin a szócikkíráson kívül részt vett a forrásjegyzék tételeinek filológiai ellenőrzésében és javításában. | The first two volumes of the Dictionary of the Hungarian Language have been published (on 1119 and 1550 pages, respectively) according to the objectives outlined in the grant proposal, cf. www.nytud.hu/publ/nszt. The first volume of contains the full bibliograp...
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... Kiss's reduced complements, see again fn. ... Page 157. 150 ISTVÁN KENESEI (17) Nem" Péter aludt a padlón not 'It is not the case that for every, slept on the floor ifand only if is Peter' (18)... more
... Kiss's reduced complements, see again fn. ... Page 157. 150 ISTVÁN KENESEI (17) Nem" Péter aludt a padlón not 'It is not the case that for every, slept on the floor ifand only if is Peter' (18) a. Nem" Péter aludt a padlón, hanem" Pál but Paul b. Nem" Péter aludt a padlón ...
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Katalin É. Kiss,The syntax of Hungarian (Cambridge Syntax Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+278.László Varga,Intonation and stress: evidence from Hungarian. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. Pp.... more
Katalin É. Kiss,The syntax of Hungarian (Cambridge Syntax Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+278.László Varga,Intonation and stress: evidence from Hungarian. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. Pp. xvii+229.László Hunyadi,Hungarian sentence prosody and universal grammar. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 328.It seems it's harvest time in Hungarian linguistics: a number of respectable publishers have in recent years put out books on various aspects of the Hungarian language by authors working in or outside Hungary. In addition to the monographs under review here, one can mention Szabolcsi (1997), Kenesei, Vago & Fenyvesi (1998), Koopman & Szabolcsi (2000) or Siptár & Törkenczy (2000).
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Ez a reszben osszefoglalo jellegű, reszben uj osszefuggeseket felmutatni szandekozo tanulmany alapvetően a nyelveszet kognitiv fordulatarol szol. Mielőtt ezt a kifejezest ertelmeznem, hadd utaljak vissza arra a megjelolesre, amellyel... more
Ez a reszben osszefoglalo jellegű, reszben uj osszefuggeseket felmutatni szandekozo tanulmany alapvetően a nyelveszet kognitiv fordulatarol szol. Mielőtt ezt a kifejezest ertelmeznem, hadd utaljak vissza arra a megjelolesre, amellyel kezdő kutato koromban ismerkedtem meg, amikor „a filozofia nyelvi fordulatarol” beszeltek, es azt ertettek alatta, hogy a 19. szd. vegen, a 20. szd. elejen az addig főkent metafizikai kerdesekkel foglalkozo filozofia egyszeriben felfedezte: ahhoz, hogy megertsuk, mikeppen vagyunk kepesek a korulottunk levő vilagot es benne sajat gondolatainkat, erzeseinket felfogni, a nyelv szerepet mindebben tisztaznunk kell
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Hungarian is spoken in Hungary and the surrounding countries and has a number of mutually intelligible dialects. The language was standardized in the early nineteenth century. The chapter gives a concise description of the language,... more
Hungarian is spoken in Hungary and the surrounding countries and has a number of mutually intelligible dialects. The language was standardized in the early nineteenth century. The chapter gives a concise description of the language, focusing on its phonology, morphology, and syntax. Hungarian phonology is characterized by an intricate system of vowel harmony. It is an agglutinating language with complex derivational and inflectional morphology. The finite verb agrees with the subject in person and number and the definiteness of the object. Hungarian word order is based on the discourse and scope properties of constituents, is mostly rigid in the preverbal field, and free in the postverbal domain, leading to the following template: Topics>Quantifiers>Negation>Focus>Verb>Other. Aspect can be expressed with the combination of word order and verbal modifiers. Embedded clauses can be both finite and non-finite, with a number of non-finite forms to choose from, including inflected infinitives in certain constructions.
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1. Preface: Ferenc Kiefer's work in semantics and pragmatics 2. Introduction 3. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics 4. Part I: Pragmatics in grammar 5. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical... more
1. Preface: Ferenc Kiefer's work in semantics and pragmatics 2. Introduction 3. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics 4. Part I: Pragmatics in grammar 5. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence (by Groot, Casper de) 6. A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax-pragmatics misalignments (by Riemsdijk, Henk van) 7. Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.) 8. "Love your enemies": Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages (by Comrie, Bernard) 9. Part II: Semantic compositionality and pragmatics 10. Two comparatives (by Wunderlich, Dieter) 11. Some puzzles of predicate possessives (by Partee, Barbara H.) 12. Adjectives in context (by Gendler Szabo, Zoltan) 13. Semantically speaking (by Bach, Kent) 14. Part III: Logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics 15. On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives (by Auwera, Johan van der) 16. Grelling's paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory (by Burton-Roberts, Noel) 17. Frege on mood and force (by Harnish, Robert M.) 18. Leibnizian linguistics (by Wierzbicka, Anna) 19. Part IV: Dialogue and thematic structure 20. Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin (by Jonasson, Kerstin) 21. Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German (by Doherty, Monika) 22. Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging (by Hajicova, Eva) 23. Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language (by Allwood, Jens) 24. An account of innuendo (by Fraser, Bruce) 25. Name index 26. Language index 27. Subject index
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Az Altalanos Nyelveszeti Tanulmanyok jelen kotete nyelvfilozofiai, nyelvlogikai kerdesekkel foglalkozik. Alcime - Tul a nyelvfilozofian - nem azt jelenti, hogy tulleptunk, vagy tul kellene lepnunk a nyelvfilozofian, hanem azt, hogy... more
Az Altalanos Nyelveszeti Tanulmanyok jelen kotete nyelvfilozofiai, nyelvlogikai kerdesekkel foglalkozik. Alcime - Tul a nyelvfilozofian - nem azt jelenti, hogy tulleptunk, vagy tul kellene lepnunk a nyelvfilozofian, hanem azt, hogy mindenkeppen tul vagyunk egy olyan filozofiatorteneti korszakon, amelyben a nyelvfilozofia egy adott szerepet jatszott. Tul vagyunk a kerdesfeltevesek es valaszok bizonyos tipusain, amelyeket uj kerdesfeltevesek es valasztipusok valtanak fel. Ezt fejezi ki kotetunk szerkezete is, bar termeszetesen sem rendszeres, sem torteneti ertelemben nem foghatja at a nyelvfilozofia egeszet, es joval tobb teruletet hagy figyelmen kivul, mint amennyit at tud tekinteni. Az itt olvashato tanulmanyok olyan, a nyelvfilozofia korebe tartozo problemakrol szolnak, sokszor meglepően uj megkozelitesben, mint Frege szemantikajanak felulvizsgalata, a „hazug" tipusu paradoxonok kikuszobolese a targynyelv es metanyelv megkulonboztetese nelkul, fogalmi igazsagok es analitikussa...
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The -i derivative affix is an old conundrum in the grammar of Hungarian. It is regularly classified as a fully productive affix deriving adjectives from nouns of various semantic properties including geographical and proper names. It is... more
The -i derivative affix is an old conundrum in the grammar of Hungarian. It is regularly classified as a fully productive affix deriving adjectives from nouns of various semantic properties including geographical and proper names. It is usually also claimed that it can occur on postpositions and some adverbials, but since these are closed classes the use of the affix in these cases is not productive. We challenge the accepted wisdom and argue that the affix is productive across the board and the meanings its derivatives represent are highly predictable. Canonical adjectives have a number of characteristics that these derivative adjectives do not, which suggests that the latter are an alternative to modification by noun, rather than adjectives proper. On the other hand, i-affixation can take referential noun phrases as its base, a phenomenon found in other morphological processes in this language, as well as in other languages. Referential adjectives based on inherently referential e...
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The document, Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Linguistics, is an attempt to chart the main characteristics of linguistics as an academic discipline practised in universities across Europe, and to... more
The document, Reference Points for the Design and Delivery of Degree Programmes in Linguistics, is an attempt to chart the main characteristics of linguistics as an academic discipline practised in universities across Europe, and to articulate the main features of degree programmes in linguistics and related areas of study. Modern linguistics is distinguished by an emphasis on the highly structured nature of language and linguistic behaviour and the development of a range of discipline specific methodologies to elucidate these structures from a formalist or functionalist perspective. Moreover, a range of viewpoints on language emerge from formal, sociological and psychological perspectives, as well as from practical concerns such as language teaching. Because of this, much of linguistics is interdisciplinary in both the issues it addresses and the methodologies brought to bear. Linguistics is thus represented in the document as including a vital core of the systematic, theoretical a...
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Ez a reszben osszefoglalo jellegű, reszben uj osszefuggeseket felmutatni szandekozo tanulmany alapvetően a nyelveszet kognitiv fordulatarol szol. Mielőtt ezt a kifejezest ertelmeznem, hadd utaljak vissza arra a megjelolesre, amellyel... more
Ez a reszben osszefoglalo jellegű, reszben uj osszefuggeseket felmutatni szandekozo tanulmany alapvetően a nyelveszet kognitiv fordulatarol szol. Mielőtt ezt a kifejezest ertelmeznem, hadd utaljak vissza arra a megjelolesre, amellyel kezdő kutato koromban ismerkedtem meg, amikor „a filozofia nyelvi fordulatarol” beszeltek, es azt ertettek alatta, hogy a 19. szd. vegen, a 20. szd. elejen az addig főkent metafizikai kerdesekkel foglalkozo filozofia egyszeriben felfedezte: ahhoz, hogy megertsuk, mikeppen vagyunk kepesek a korulottunk levő vilagot es benne sajat gondolatainkat, erzeseinket felfogni, a nyelv szerepet mindebben tisztaznunk kell
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A kutatás célja a -Magyar strukturális nyelvtan 4., a mentális szótár szerkezetéről szóló kötetének elkészítése. A szótári információk szerteágazó és rendkívül gazdag voltából következően a kutatás esettanulmányok elkészítésére... more
A kutatás célja a -Magyar strukturális nyelvtan 4., a mentális szótár szerkezetéről szóló kötetének elkészítése. A szótári információk szerteágazó és rendkívül gazdag voltából következően a kutatás esettanulmányok elkészítésére törekedett. Az igékről hat esettanulmány készült: az első az igék szemantikája és a szintaktikai alternációk közötti összefüggést vizsgálja, a második az implicit vonzatok kérdésével foglalkozik, a harmadik témája a határozatlan argumentumok problémája, a negyediké az igék eseményszerkezete és az aspektus összefüggései, az ötödiké az igei poliszémia, végül a hatodiké az igei vonzatkeret ábrázolásának problémái. Külön-külön esettanulmány készült a relációs főnevekről, a melléknevek szemantikájáról, a mellérendelő kötőszókról, a funkcionális kategóriákról és a partikulákról. Általánosabb témákat vesz célba a ?Morfofonológia a szótárban? c. esettanulmány, a mentális szótár pszicholingvisztikai aspektusairól szóló tanulmány, valamint a szótár korpusznyelvészeti v...
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Recent attempts at defining the functions and domains of focus make a distinction between information focus and identificational or contrastive focus that is shown to be much less significant. Both types of focus are identificational, and... more
Recent attempts at defining the functions and domains of focus make a distinction between information focus and identificational or contrastive focus that is shown to be much less significant. Both types of focus are identificational, and they differ in that information focus incorporates a weaker relationship between the set of individuals identified and the relevant set of discourse available to both speaker and hearer. In a reexamination of focus domains in the focus sensitive language Hungarian it is shown that their range has previously been taken to be too limited and too wide at the same time: a number of syntactic constituents disqualified before can be interpreted as focussed provided syntactic and prosodic factors are both taken into consideration, while others prove to be focussable only as parts of larger syntactic and semantic units.
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... In complex sentences the application of (3) must be restricted as well as supple-mented, since embedded sentences apparently cannot occupy ... b. Extraposition from Focus and So is obligatory (p. 200 ... 8) S" and S? are bounding... more
... In complex sentences the application of (3) must be restricted as well as supple-mented, since embedded sentences apparently cannot occupy ... b. Extraposition from Focus and So is obligatory (p. 200 ... 8) S" and S? are bounding nodes from the point of view of Subjacency (p. 200 ...
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1. Preface: Ferenc Kiefer's work in semantics and pragmatics 2. Introduction 3. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics 4. Part I: Pragmatics in grammar 5. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical... more
1. Preface: Ferenc Kiefer's work in semantics and pragmatics 2. Introduction 3. Selected books and articles by Ferenc Kiefer in semantics and pragmatics 4. Part I: Pragmatics in grammar 5. Functional Grammar and the non-lexical expression of absence (by Groot, Casper de) 6. A far from simple matter: Syntactic reflexes of syntax-pragmatics misalignments (by Riemsdijk, Henk van) 7. Morphopragmatics of diminutives and augmentatives: On the priority of pragmatics over semantics (by Dressler, Wolfgang U.) 8. "Love your enemies": Affective constructions in two Daghestanian languages (by Comrie, Bernard) 9. Part II: Semantic compositionality and pragmatics 10. Two comparatives (by Wunderlich, Dieter) 11. Some puzzles of predicate possessives (by Partee, Barbara H.) 12. Adjectives in context (by Gendler Szabo, Zoltan) 13. Semantically speaking (by Bach, Kent) 14. Part III: Logical structures and universals in semantics and pragmatics 15. On the lexical typology of modals, quantifiers, and connectives (by Auwera, Johan van der) 16. Grelling's paradox: Its significance for linguistic theory (by Burton-Roberts, Noel) 17. Frege on mood and force (by Harnish, Robert M.) 18. Leibnizian linguistics (by Wierzbicka, Anna) 19. Part IV: Dialogue and thematic structure 20. Naming conventions, focalization, and point of view in Balzac's La Peau de chagrin (by Jonasson, Kerstin) 21. Discourse theory and the translation of clefts between English and German (by Doherty, Monika) 22. Tectogrammatics in corpus tagging (by Hajicova, Eva) 23. Capturing differences between social activities in spoken language (by Allwood, Jens) 24. An account of innuendo (by Fraser, Bruce) 25. Name index 26. Language index 27. Subject index
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When a phonological rule applies across words, it is necessary to be able to specify across which types of words it may apply and across which it may not, or in other words, within which domain it applies. That such domains do not... more
When a phonological rule applies across words, it is necessary to be able to specify across which types of words it may apply and across which it may not, or in other words, within which domain it applies. That such domains do not necessarily coincide with syntactic constituents has been amply demonstrated in such works as Clements (1978), Napoli & Nespor (1979), Rotenberg (1978), Selkirk (1978, 1984), Nespor & Vogel (1982, 1986) and Kaisse (1985). As has been argued in recent work, what is needed instead is a somewhat more complex theory in which there is a more complex type of interaction between phonological rules and syntactic structures. In the past few years, several such theories have been proposed, in particular, those advanced by Selkirk (1984), Kaisse (1985) and Nespor & Vogel (1986).
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Katalin É. Kiss,The syntax of Hungarian (Cambridge Syntax Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+278.László Varga,Intonation and stress: evidence from Hungarian. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. Pp.... more
Katalin É. Kiss,The syntax of Hungarian (Cambridge Syntax Guides). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. xii+278.László Varga,Intonation and stress: evidence from Hungarian. Houndmills: Palgrave MacMillan, 2002. Pp. xvii+229.László Hunyadi,Hungarian sentence prosody and universal grammar. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2002. Pp. 328.It seems it's harvest time in Hungarian linguistics: a number of respectable publishers have in recent years put out books on various aspects of the Hungarian language by authors working in or outside Hungary. In addition to the monographs under review here, one can mention Szabolcsi (1997), Kenesei, Vago & Fenyvesi (1998), Koopman & Szabolcsi (2000) or Siptár & Törkenczy (2000).
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The recent cognitive turn in linguistics is closely related to research into the creative nature of language. Formal creativity, or in other words, the recursive nature of language (with respect to both words, i.e., the basic units, and... more
The recent cognitive turn in linguistics is closely related to research into the creative nature of language. Formal creativity, or in other words, the recursive nature of language (with respect to both words, i.e., the basic units, and sentences, i.e., the end products) is what determines further domains of creativity, viz., at the level of meanings and in the theory of mind, providing for their unlimited and variable nature. Principles of the formal properties of language are presented at the levels of words and sentences, showing that recursion occurs both in words and sentences, indicating the local nature of syntactic relations, and demonstrating their neural correlates. Reference to neurolinguistic experiments is used to argue that metaphorical extensions of meanings are a natural phenomenon placing no burden on mental processing, even though literal meanings are not handled the same way as metaphors. It is claimed that sentential meanings have a primacy over word meanings, wh...