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Beliefs and hypotheses in Uralistics

L. Honti

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 1 > 1-15

This paper discusses certain assumptions that have been made within Uralistics, some of which are closely connected to the remote past of the Hungarian language. The author provides a critical survey of some unfounded hypotheses - or rather beliefs - that have been published over the past few decades and attempts to counter them with well-founded hypotheses. The specific issues are as follows: 1....

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Outlines of a theory of the verbal particle

K. E-Kiss

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 1 > 15-43

The paper aims to outline a theory of the verbal particle which can predict when a Hungarian verb takes a verbal particle and when it does not. It argues that the verbal particle appears in sentences describing complex events, and it is a secondary predicate predicated of the theme argument (hence it is barred from unergative sentences with no theme). It has three subtypes: the resultative particle,...

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On alternating priorities in the subject - predicate relationship

I. Pete

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 1 > 66-74

There are many ways in which sentences can be analysed. The author proposes five points of view (logical, semantic, grammatical, structural, and informational) for the analysis of predication and of sentences. (1) From an Aristotelian logical point of view, the sentence is divided into two main, coequal parts: subject and predicate. Further (secondary) parts of the sentence are within the scope of...

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Conversion in Hungarian

M. D-Matai

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 1 > 43-52

This paper deals with one of the main issues in the history of parts of speech in Hungarian: that concerning how the individual word classes get expanded, in what way(s) new items emerge within, or are added to, a given word class. Related research has focussed on the various ways of word formation (compounding, derivation, lexicalisation of suffixed forms, etc.). Most parts of speech, however, get...

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The temporal organisation of lexical retrieval

M. Gosy

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 1 > 52-65

The interaction between pauses and the retrieval of the desired lexemes in the process of word production is a topic that involves controversies worth investigating. The hypothesis of the present paper was that certain pauses might refer to specific operations in the mental lexicon predicting the phonetic output. The temporal analysis of word retrieval was carried out in a 'tip-of-the-tongue' elicitation...

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The revised edition of A Concise Dictionary of Hungarian

Z. Eder

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 2 > 146-159

It was in the early nineties, right after the political changes in Hungary, that the pressing need for an up-to-date dictionary of Hungarian became evident. As a temporary solution, it was decided that the 1972 first edition of the Concise Dictionary of Hungarian should be revised and updated. The author of this paper surveys earlier and immediate predecessors of that dictionary, reviews the major...

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Gyula Krúdy - as seen by Sándor Márai.

I. Szathmari

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 2 > 180-185

The author began his talk by admitting that his taking to Krúdy had in fact been inspired by Márai. Therefore, in this public lecture, he tried to present that curious personality of the history of Hungarian literature with the help of Márai's essays and numerous remarks. Márai knew Krúdy's life and work quite closely and how much he was attracted to him was demonstrated by a number of facts. He kept...

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Relations between relations of coordination

I. Bekesi

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 2 > 171-180

The author investigates the relations that hold between the Hungarian conjunctions 'de' (but) vs. 'pedig' (yet) on the one hand, and 'tehát' (hence) vs. 'hiszen' (since) on the other hand, relying on evidence drawn from Hungarian texts. In order to analyse surface relations, he creates a theoretical framework on the basis of Grice's conversational implicatures. (For details, see his The Place of Concession...

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The linguistic situation in Switzerland, with special regard to linguistic minorities (I-II)

J. Szabo

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 3 > 291-298

(This abstract also covers Part I of the article published Ibid. vol.100(2004), No. 2, pp.159-170) It has recently been suggested in many parts of the world that globalisation might endanger languages and cultures of smaller groups of people. This may primarily concern communities living in the territory of another nation, in a minority situation. Obviously, all minority groups have the right to preserve...

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Contradiction and plausible inference in linguistics: Preliminaries to an investigation of the argumentation structure of linguistic theories (I-II)

A. Kertesz, Cs. Rakosi

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 3 > 273-290

This paper, Part I of which was published Ibid. vol.100(2004) No. 2, pp.129-146, discusses the methodology of scientific inquiry and is a preliminary study written for a research project entitled 'The empirical bases of theories of cognitive semantics'. It consists of two major parts. The first section of Part I exposes the problem by drawing the reader's attention to the relevance of the metatheories...

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On sound change

I. Nyomarkay

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 4 > 395-406

This paper discusses various sound changes occurring in the course of the history of a language, especially with respect to their articulatory or psychological motivations. On the basis of some classical and modern approaches, the author lists four main reasons for sound change: ease of articulation, analogy, increased speech rate, as well as some extralinguistic factors. The specific claims are illustrated...

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Inetymological consonants in early Hungarian place names. (I-II)

V. Toth

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 4 > 454-470

(This abstract covers also Part I of the paper published Ibid. vol.100(2004), No.3 pp. 321-331). Inetymological sounds are surplus vowels or consonants that are added to the etymon, or the original sound structure of a word, in the course of its historical development. Their occurrence in Hungarian common words has been discussed in two monographs by István Nyirkos, but their role in proper names...

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Some remarks on Hungarian names of trees (I-II)

A. Rona-Tas

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 4 > 419-438

(This abstract also covers Part I of the paper published Ibid. vol. 100 (2004), No. 3. pp. 260-273). The paper discusses the etymology of the following Hungarian tree names: bükk (beech), tölgy (oak), koris (ash-tree), gyümölcsény (hawthorn, a plant similar to whitethorn or elder), gyertyán (hornbeam), gyurufa (a kind of tree similar to maple or cornel), éger (alder), dió (nut), mogyoró (hazel). The...

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The Old Hungarian place name forming suffix -j, -aj/-ej

L. Benko

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 406-419

It has been recognised by scholars for some time now that -j, -aj/-ej is to be considered an obsolete Hungarian place name forming suffix; however, various uncertainties have arisen with respect to its origin and function. These uncertainties are reflected in the Hungarian-based etymological and morphological labels applied to such items occurring as place names still in use today in Lajos Kiss' An...

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Leibniz and the Finno-Ugrians

J. Hegedus

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 385-395

Leibniz, one of the most prominent scholars of his time, was interested not only in natural sciences, mathematics, philosophy, etc. but in linguistics as well. As is known, he was presumably the first to declare the close linguistic connection between the Finnic languages and Hungarian. In accordance with his precursors and contemporaries, he was deeply immersed in the 'primeval' Scythian and Celtic...

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Additional remarks on the explanation of Sermo super sepulchrum

F. A-Molnar

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 439-453

This paper is a sequel to an earlier one published in the same journal (1997: 207 -16), containing linguistic and cultural-historical commentaries on certain expressions in the earliest extant Hungarian-language document known as Sermo super sepulchrum (Halotti Beszéd és Könyörgés, abbreviated as HB., respectively HBK.) that has survived as copied into Pray Codex, a Latin codex from around 1195. First,...

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Since when do we ride the apostles' mare? The cultural--historical background of a Bibleism

J. A. Balazsi

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 298-313

In this essay, the author tries to shed light on the cultural roots of the Hungarian saying 'az apostolok lován megy' (to go on foot; lit. to ride the apostles' horse). Expressions of biblical origin make up a considerable part of the vocabulary of each European nation (e.g. the number of these idiomatic expressions in Hungarian exceeds 1 000). Since these idioms first spread by word of mouth, and...

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Before the centenary of the Society of Hungarian Linguistics

J. Kiss

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 257-259

The Society of Hungarian Linguistics celebrates the one hundredth anniversary of its foundation in 2004. The framework for that celebration will be provided by the general assembly of the Society to be held early in December. The addresses and talks to be delivered there will be published in next year's first issue of this journal. The present paper marks the jubilee by a brief recapitulation of the...

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The case of the Rod of Jesse with an Old Slavonic aorist form

I. Lukacs

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2004 > 100 > 3131-321

István Kilián and Mária Zsuzsanna Pintér found an unparalleled Slavonic manuscript in 1997 in Csíksomlyó, Transylvania. The document, written in 1626 in the Kajkavian (Zagreb) dialect of Croatian, is a kind of Lament of Mary in dramatised verses whose inception may have involved some Hungarian influence, too. Its author is probably Andreas Knezaich, a priest of Croatian descent who served in Csíksomlyó...

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A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC SKETCH ON PREVERB–VERB COMBINATIONS

Gabor Tolcsvai-Nagy

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language) > 2005 > 101 > 1 > 27-43

This paper presents the semantics of preverb-verb combinations as semantic structures in a cognitive linguistics framework. The presentation sketches a semantic description of prototypical preverb-verb combinations as the default case, using the methodology of Langacker's theory of semantic structure and composite structure, and as an implementation of blending elaborated by Fauconnier. The basis...

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Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)

Beliefs and hypotheses in Uralistics

Outlines of a theory of the verbal particle

On alternating priorities in the subject - predicate relationship

Conversion in Hungarian

The temporal organisation of lexical retrieval

The revised edition of A Concise Dictionary of Hungarian

Gyula Krúdy - as seen by Sándor Márai.

Relations between relations of coordination

The linguistic situation in Switzerland, with special regard to linguistic minorities (I-II)

Contradiction and plausible inference in linguistics: Preliminaries to an investigation of the argumentation structure of linguistic theories (I-II)

On sound change

Inetymological consonants in early Hungarian place names. (I-II)

Some remarks on Hungarian names of trees (I-II)

The Old Hungarian place name forming suffix -j, -aj/-ej

Leibniz and the Finno-Ugrians

Additional remarks on the explanation of Sermo super sepulchrum

Since when do we ride the apostles' mare? The cultural--historical background of a Bibleism

Before the centenary of the Society of Hungarian Linguistics

The case of the Rod of Jesse with an Old Slavonic aorist form

A COGNITIVE SEMANTIC SKETCH ON PREVERB–VERB COMBINATIONS

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