Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax

Informationen zum Autor Katalin É. Kiss is Professor at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and at Pázmány Péter Catholic University, where she is also head of the Doctoral School in Linguistics. Her publications include The Syntax of Hungarian (CUP, 2002), Discourse-Configurational Languages (OUP, 1995), Event Structure and the Left Periphery (Springer, 2006), and Adverbs and Adverbial Adjuncts at the Interfaces (De Gruyter, 2009). Klappentext This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. It focuses particularly on the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial and the resultant changes that occurred. Zusammenfassung This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. It focuses particularly on the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial and the resultant changes that occurred. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Katalin É. Kiss: Introduction 2: Katalin É. Kiss: The evolution of functional left peripheries in the Hungarian sentence 3: Barbara Egedi: The DP-cycle in Hungarian and the functional extension of the noun phrase 4: Ágnes Bende-Farkas: From A-quantification to D-quantification: universal quantifiers in the sentence and in the Noun Phrase 5: Veronika Hegedús: The cyclical development of Ps in Hungarian 6: Júlia Bácskai-Atkári and Éva Dékány: From non-finte to finite subordination: the history of embedded clauses Appendix: Corpus building from Old Hungarian codices

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• Authors: Katalin (Professor of Linguistics E. Kiss, Katalin E. Kiss
• Assisted by: Katalin E. Kiss (Editor), Katalin (Professor of Linguistics E. Kiss (Editor), Katalin É. Kiss (Editor), Katalin E. Kiss (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.08.2014
• EAN: 9780198709855
• ISBN: 978-0-19-870985-5
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a; Oxford Studies in Diachronic and Historical Linguistics; Oxford Studies in Diachronic a
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Grammar & Punctuation, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Historical & comparative linguistics, Grammar, syntax and morphology, Hungarian (Magyar), Historical and comparative linguistics