The Odd Yearbook 6 2001

Előszó

Editorial note
We present the sixth volume in a series of biennial yearbooks that contain papers in linguistics written by undergraduate students seeking a degree in English Language and Literature at the School of English and American Studies of the Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Budapest.
This year's volume of The Odd Yearbook contains papers on phonology, syntax and historical linguistics. Papers devoted to phonology discuss issues such as the representation of syllabic consonants in Slovak (Blahó), that of English glides (Cziczelszky), and laryngeality (Starcevic). Other papers on phonology deal with the function of sonority (Gyarmati), vowel harmony in Yakut (Huber), the underlying nasal segments of English (Romeisz), and the difficulties surrounding the definition of phonological strength and assimilation (Tóth). The paper on syntax tackles comparative constructions in English (Kántor), while the paper ending the volume discusses the Modern English and Hungarian translations of The Pardoner's Tale in Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales.
Our thanks are due to the staff of the English Linguistics Department of SEAS who reviewed and helped to select the papers, they are: Judit Farkas, Veronika Kniezsa, Adám Nádasdy, Balázs Surányi, Péter Szigetvári, Miklós Tör-kenczy and László Varga. We also like to thank the financial help provided by the Student Council (HÖK) of ELTE and the FKFP fund of the Ministry of Education. Without this help the publication would have been impossible. We are also grateful for Dániel Huber and Márta Abrusán for their help.
As always, we wish success to the contributors of The Odd Yearbook series, whose publication—despite the ever increasing financial difficulties—we are determined to continue in 2003.
Budapest, December 2001
The Editors Vissza