Péter Siptár, Miklós Törkenczy

The Phonology of Hungarian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work introduces the general features of Hungarian, and its major dialects. It examines the vowel and consonant systems, and Phonotactics. The authors describe the phonological processes that vowels, consonants, and syllables undergo and/or trigger.

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This book is the first comprehensive account of the phonology of Hungarian to appear in English. Hungarian (Magyar) is a Finno-Ugric language spoken by over thirteen million people in Central Europe. Péter Siptár and Miklós Törkenczy here place the emphasis on descriptive coverage rather than theoretical issues, therefore ensuring that the book will be of interest not only for phonology specialists, but also for a much wider audience interested in Hungarian.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9780198238416
• ISBN-10: 019823841X
• Artikelnr.: 22941528

Autorenporträt

Péter Siptár is Associate Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is the author (with Jacques Durand) of Bevezetés a fonológiába [An Introduction to Phonology] (Osiris, 1997) and (with Katalin É. Kiss and Ferenc Kiefer) of Új magvar nyelvtan [A New Hungarian Grammar] (Osiris, 1998). He is currently Associate Editor of Acta Linguistica Hungarica (Kluwer/Akadémiai) and in 1998 won the (Hungarian) Academy Award in Linguistics. Miklós Törkenczy is Reader/Associate Professor in the English Linguistics Department and the Theoretical Linguistics Department at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. He is the author of Hungarian Verbs and Essentials of Grammar: A practical guide to the mastery of Hungarian (Corvina/Passport Books, 1997).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Background
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Preliminaries
Part II: Systems
Chapter 3: The Vowel System
Chapter 4: The Consonant System
Chapter 5: Phonotactics: Syllable structure
Part III: Processes
Chapter 6: Processes Involving Vowels
Chapter 7: Processes Involving Consonants
Chapter 8: Processes Conditioned by Syllable Structure
Chapter 9: Surface Processes