Joint list as CEUS U320/U520 and LING L490/L590)

The course shall present contemporary structural approaches to
Hungarian for an audience that does not necessarily speak Hungarian,
but have a solid background in linguistic theory. Hungarian as a
highly agglutinate language, with relatively free word order has
been at the center of linguistic attention during the last few
decades.
The main focus of the course will be morphology and syntax. We will
go through basic phonological proposals for Hungarian, then move on
to morphological patterns and processes, the nature of morphological
rules in Hungarian, then Hungarian syntax shall be outlined. Syntax
will be presented regarding the different proposals on word order
phenomena, and the status of Focus in Hungarian. The theoretical
debates regarding the specifities of Hungarian word order and
Thematic Roles will be highlighted.  Simple sentences and embeddings
as well as conjunctions shall be analyzed in a generative framework.
Finally, some discourse phenomena, especially intersentential
anaphora will be analyzed in its relation to syntax and pragmatic
considerations.
Students shall be required to write a paper of 10 pages, reviewing
the literature of a specific structural aspect of Hungarian.  They
will have to present the paper in class.
Required Texts: The syntax of Hungarian. Katalin E. Kiss, CUP, 1997
Suggested reading: Hungarian Verbs And Essentials of Grammar
by Miklos Torkenczy. McGraw Hill, 1997