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Hungarian in focus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 June 2005

ISTVÁN KENESEI
ISTVÁN KENESEI
Affiliation:
Research Institute for Linguistics, Budapest, & University of Szeged
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Abstract

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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Review Article
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Journal of Linguistics , Volume 41 , Issue 2 , July 2005 , pp. 409 - 435
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2005 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

The research underlying this review was in part supported by the NWO-OTKA Dutch–Hungarian grant N37276 on ‘The syntax, semantics and phonology of the left periphery’, and the Collegium Budapest – Institute for Advanced Study. My thanks are due to my graduate and undergraduate students in 2002/03, and in particular to Veronika Hegedûs and Dániel Pap. I am also indebted to three anonymous JL referees for their comments and advice, and to the three authors themselves for discussing some of the issues raised here. Finally, I am grateful to the JL copy-editor for careful reading and suggestions. All remaining errors and misanalyses are mine.