SubjectsLinguistics / Uralic languages
Journals
ISSN 2665-9336 | E‑ISSN 2665‑9344
Journal of Uralic Linguistics
Edited by Anders Holmberg and Balázs Surányi
ISSN 2772-3720 | E‑ISSN 2772‑3739
Book series
Approaches to Hungarian 19
Edited by Edgar Onea and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 4:1 (2025) v, 143 pp.
First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages
Edited by Minna Kirjavainen, Ágnes Lukács and Virve-Anneli Vihman
This book is the first comprehensive state-of-the-art overview of the first language acquisition of four Finno-Ugric languages: Estonian, Finnish, Hungarian, and North Saami. Ten chapters review research on phonological, lexical, and grammatical development, bringing the research within the… read more[Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] 2025. vii, 349 pp.
Proper Names
Edited by Chia-Jung Pan and Yang Huang
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 6:1 (2025) v, 252 pp.
(Inter)subjectivity across registers of Estonian: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024)
Edited by Helle Metslang, Tiit Hennoste and Külli Habicht
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:2 (2024) v, 178 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian 18: Special issue of the Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023)
Edited by Donka F. Farkas, Gábor Alberti and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 (2023) v, 153 pp.
Ethnolinguistic contact across the Indo-Myanmar-Southwestern China mountains
Edited by Alexander R. Coupe, Randy J. LaPolla and Hideo Sawada
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 4:2 (2023) v, 218 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian 17: Special issue of the Journal on Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022)
Edited by Tamás Halm, Elizabeth Coppock and Balázs Surányi
Special issue of Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:2 (2022) v, 130 pp.
Classifiers
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald
Special issue of Asian Languages and Linguistics 3:2 (2022) v, 227 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference
Edited by Veronika Hegedűs and Irene Vogel
This volume contains selected papers from the 13th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Budapest, 2017).The contributions address current issues in Hungarian linguistics, including comparisons with other languages (e.g., English, German, Turkish, Arabic, Spanish).Specifically,… read more
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference
Edited by Harry van der Hulst and Anikó Lipták
This volume contains a selection of papers from the 12th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Leiden, 2015). The contributions cover a wide range of topics and their significance in generative theorizing.The papers about morphosyntax focus on the formation of comparative clauses,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 15] 2017. x, 255 pp.
Uralic Essive and the Expression of Impermanent State
Edited by Casper de Groot
This volume is the first book length study into the essive, a relatively unknown case marker like English ‘as (a child)’. It focuses on the distribution of the essive in contemporary Uralic languages with special attention to the opposition between permanent and impermanent state. The volume… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 119] 2017. xix, 555 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 14: Papers from the 2013 Piliscsaba Conference
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss, Balázs Surányi and Éva Dékány
This volume of papers selected from the 11th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian addresses current topics in Hungarian linguistics, focusing on their theoretical implications.The papers in syntax investigate the complement zone of nouns, the syntax of case assigning adpositions,… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 14] 2015. v, 296 pp.
Negation in Uralic Languages
Edited by Matti Miestamo, Anne Tamm and Beáta Wagner-Nagy
The grammaticalized expression of negation is a linguistic universal. This volume deals with negation in the Uralic language family in a typological perspective. As in no other major language family before, a comprehensive typological questionnaire provides the basis for the chapters documenting… read more[Typological Studies in Language, 108] 2015. ix, 667 pp.
Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives
Edited by Laura Visapää, Jyrki Kalliokoski and Helena Sorva
Contexts of Subordination: Cognitive, typological and discourse perspectives is a collection of articles that approaches linguistic subordination as a semantico-grammatical and pragmatic phenomenon. The volume brings together cognitive, interactional and typological perspectives, and is… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 249] 2014. viii, 288 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference
Edited by Johan Brandtler, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack
This volume brings together ten papers presented at the 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (Lund, 2011). The papers cover a broad field of issues in Hungarian relating to phonetics, phonology, semantics, syntax and pragmatics, such as vowel harmony, particle verb… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 13] 2013. v, 254 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference
Edited by Tibor Laczkó and Catherine O. Ringen
This volume contains eight papers, all presented at the 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (University of Debrecen, 2009), addressing a great variety of topics in the syntax, morphology, phonology, and semantics of Hungarian, and also offering discussion of related phenomena… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 12] 2011. x, 242 pp.
Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 11: Papers from the 2007 New York Conference
Edited by Marcel den Dikken and Robert M. Vago
This volume brings together ten papers, all presented at the 8th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian (New York City, 2007), addressing a wide range of topics in the morphology, phonetics, phonology, pragmatics, semantics, and syntax of Hungarian, with discussion of related facts… read more[Approaches to Hungarian, 11] 2009. ix, 280 pp.
Beiträge zur Morphologie: Germanisch, Baltisch, Ostseefinnisch
Herausgegeben von Hans Fix
Der vorliegende Band, der auf ein interdisziplinäres Symposion Morphologische Probleme in den Sprachen der Ostseeanrainer im September 2005 am Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald zurückgeht, enthält Beiträge von Norbert Endres (Greifswald), Frank Heidermanns (Köln), Arend Quak (Amsterdam),… read more[NOWELE Supplement Series, 23] 2007. viii, 484 pp.
Saami Linguistics
Edited by Ida Toivonen and Diane Nelson
The papers in this volume describe and analyze an array of intriguing linguistic phenomena as they occur in the Saami languages, ranging from etymological nativization of loanwords to the formation of deadjectival and denominal verbs. Saami displays a number of characteristics that are unusual from… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 288] 2007. viii, 321 pp.
Grammar from the Human Perspective: Case, space and person in Finnish
Edited by Marja-Liisa Helasvuo and Lyle Campbell
The papers of this volume investigate how grammar codes the subjective viewpoint of human language users, that is, how grammar reflects human conceptualization. Some of the articles deal with spatial relations and locations. They discuss how basic attributes of human conceptualization are encoded… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 277] 2006. x, 280 pp.
Second Language Interaction
Salla Kurhila
Members of divergent societies are increasingly involved in interactional situations, both publicly and privately, where participants do not share linguistic resources. Second language conversations have become common everyday events in the globalized world, and an interest has evolved to determine… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 145] 2006. vii, 257 pp.
Hungarian Language Contact Outside Hungary: Studies on Hungarian as a minority language
Edited by Anna Fenyvesi
In Communist times, it was impossible to do sociolinguistic work on Hungarian in contact with other languages. In the short period of time since the collapse of the Soviet bloc, Hungarian sociolinguists have certainly done their very best to catch up. This volume brings together the fruits of their… read more[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 20] 2005. xxii, 424 pp.
Verb Clusters: A study of Hungarian, German and Dutch
Edited by Katalin É. Kiss and Henk van Riemsdijk
Many languages have constructions in which verbs cluster. But few languages have verb clusters as rich and complex as Continental West Germanic and Hungarian. Furthermore the precise ordering properties and the variation in the cluster patterns are remarkably similar in Hungarian and Germanic. This… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 69] 2004. vi, 514 pp.
Small Phrase Layers: A study of Finnish Manner Adverbials
Satu Manninen
This monograph examines the structure and properties of Finnish manner adverbials. The central idea is that, instead of AdvPs, DPs, APs, PPs, NumPs and InfinitivalPs, manner adverbials have the form of either kPs or pPs, and they are licensed as unique specifiers of a manner-related small vP.… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 65] 2003. xii, 275 pp.
Responding in Conversation: A study of response particles in Finnish
Marja-Leena Sorjonen
This book concerns particles that are used as responses in conversations. It provides much needed methodological tools for analyzing the use of response particles in languages, while its particular focus is Finnish. The book focuses on two Finnish particles, nii(n) and joo, which in some of their… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 70] 2001. x, 330 pp.
Syntax in the Making: The emergence of syntactic units in Finnish conversation
Marja-Liisa Helasvuo
Research on the interplay between language structure and language use has shown that grammar is shaped, maintained, and modified by language use. In this view, then, grammar is not seen as existing apart from language use, but rather as a set of recurrent, grammaticized patterns of discourse. This… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 9] 2001. xiv, 175 pp.
Greek and Indo-European Etymology in Action: Proto-Indo-European *aǵ-
Raimo Anttila
This study resurrects the genre of Wortstudien contributions or lexilogus treatments, the core of historical lexical semantics. Such studies used to be quite popular, and interest in lexical matters is again rising. The word family around the Indo-European root *aǵ- ‘drive’ is placed against its… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 200] 2000. xii, 314 pp.
Word Order in Hungarian: The syntax of Ā-positions
Genoveva Puskás
Hungarian word-order is characterized by large scale preposing of constituents to sentence-initial positions. This study examines systematically the elements which occur in the left periphery. Focal, wh- and negative operators which have scope over the whole sentence must appear in the left… read more[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today, 33] 2000. xvi, 396 pp.
Crossing Boundaries: Advances in the theory of Central and Eastern European languages
Edited by István Kenesei
The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 182] 1999. viii, 302 pp.
Demonstratives in Interaction: The emergence of a definite article in Finnish
Ritva Laury
This book concerns one of the paradigm examples of grammaticalization, the development of a definite article from a demonstrative determiner. Although standard written Finnish has no articles, the demonstrative se is currently emerging as a definite article in spoken Finnish. This book describes… read more[Studies in Discourse and Grammar, 7] 1997. viii, 294 pp.
Comparative-Historical Linguistics: Indo-European and Finno-Ugric. Papers in honor of Oswald Szemerényi III
Edited by Bela Brogyanyi and Reiner Lipp
This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is… read more[Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 97] 1993. xii, 566 pp.
Grammatical Proof of the Affinity of the Hungarian Language with Languages of Fennic Origin (Göttingen: Dieterich, 1799)
Sámuel Gyarmathi (1751–1830)
Sámuel Gyarmathi’s Affinitas linguae hungaricae cum linguis fennicae originis grammatice demonstrata (Göttingen 1799) was received as a distinguished work of scholarship in its own days, and its historical importance has been fully recognized ever since. This volume provides an English translation… read more[Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800–1925, 15] 1983. xl, 327 pp.
Hungarian General Linguistics
Edited by Ferenc Kiefer †
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… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 4] 1982. vii, 599 pp.
Die türkische Sprache in Ungarn im siebzehnten Jahrhundert
Jenö U. Németh
[Bibliotheca Orientalis Hungarica, 13] 1970. 281 pp., 90 ills.