Practical Hungarian Grammar

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This book is a guide to the most important structures of Hungárián. It is a practical reference grammar intended to help the reader/learner in individual or group study, and can be used at all levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced). As the muttitude of word forms presents perhaps the most serious challenge to those who study Hungárián, the focus of the book is the way in which words are built up from stems and affixes including inflec-tion and derivation (word formation). In addition to a compre-hensive treatment of the regularities and irregularities of word structure, the book covers pronunciation, letter-to-sound corre-spondences, the essential characteristics of larger structures (such as phrases, clauses and sentences), and gives detailed information on usage. As an especially user-friendly feature, the book contains an index of words which cross-references all the words discussed in the grammar which are irregular or behave in a special/notable way in som§ respect. The... Tovább

Fülszöveg

This book is a guide to the most important structures of Hungárián. It is a practical reference grammar intended to help the reader/learner in individual or group study, and can be used at all levels (beginner, intermediate, advanced). As the muttitude of word forms presents perhaps the most serious challenge to those who study Hungárián, the focus of the book is the way in which words are built up from stems and affixes including inflec-tion and derivation (word formation). In addition to a compre-hensive treatment of the regularities and irregularities of word structure, the book covers pronunciation, letter-to-sound corre-spondences, the essential characteristics of larger structures (such as phrases, clauses and sentences), and gives detailed information on usage. As an especially user-friendly feature, the book contains an index of words which cross-references all the words discussed in the grammar which are irregular or behave in a special/notable way in som§ respect. The book alsó has a subject index and an index of derivational affixes.
Miklós Törkenczy is Reader/Associate Professor at the English Linguistics Department and the Theoretical Linguistics Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is the author of Hungárián Verbs and Essentials of Grammar: A Practical Guide to the Mastery of Hungárián (Corvina/Passport Books, 1997) and (with Péter Siptár) The Phonology of Hungárián. The Phonology of the World's Languages. (Oxford: Cla-rendon Press/Oxford University Press, 2000) Vissza