LINGUIST List 13.160

Tue Jan 22 2002

Books: Syntax

Editor for this issue: Naomi Ogasawara <naomilinguistlist.org>

Directory

1. Joyce Reid, Syntax: The Syntax of Hungarian by Katalin I. Kiss

The Syntax of Hungarian

Katalin I. Kiss, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary


Clearly written and comprehensive in scope, this is an essential guide
to syntax in the Hungarian language. It describes the key grammatical
features of the language, focusing on the phenomena that have proved
to be theoretically the most relevant and have attracted the most
attention. Katalin I. Kiss's textbook explores issues currently at the
center of theoretical debates, including the syntax and semantics of
focus, the analysis of quantifier scope, and negative concord.

Contents:

1. Introduction; 
2. The topic-predicate articulation of the sentence; 
3. The minimal predicate; 
4. Focusing; 
5. Quantification; 
6. Negation; 
7. The noun phrases; 
8. The postpositional phrase; 
9. Non-finite and semi-finite verb phrases; 
10.The subordinate clause.

Cambridge Syntax Guides

2002/c. 260 pp.
0-521-66047-5/Hb/List: $60.00*
0-521-66939-1/Pb/List: $22.00*

Cambridge University Press
http://www.cup.org