The Romany language, due to the circumstances in which it is used, frequently borrows lexical items. This mostly happens from the local language, that is, the one spoken by the majority society surrounding the given Roma ...

It is argued that the seemingly idiosyncratic syntactic behavior of sem ’either/neither’ can be understood on the basis of its history. The paper fi rst summarizes the descriptive problems raised by sem, which sometimes ...

The paper presents an analogy-based solution to a problem of Hungarian morpho-phonology that has been problematic for rule- or constraint-based approaches. First, the concept of an analogy-based theory is sketched. The ...

This article tries to find an answer to the question why the vowel in suffix -kor does not take part in vowel harmony, which otherwise is a characteristic feature of Hungarian suffix vowels. In the first part, the traditional ...

Tragikusan korán távozott az élők sorából ifjabbik S. Pataki Mózes (1784-1815), Wesselényi Miklós tudós nevelője, drámafordító, filológus. Ifjúkorának műve ez a versekből (saját művekből, fordításokból) és néhány allegorikus ...

The paper entitled Linguistic Analysis of a Literary Text is based on short story titled House of István Örkény. The subject of this paper is therefore the linguistic analysis of the text. In the introduction I theorize ...

The narrative-poetical specifi cifi es of W. G. Sebald’s works – the first-person narration whose narratorial voice hides a “Sebald-like” figure, the border-crossings between reality and fiction, the blend of the generic ...

The study outlines the nearly forgotten historical event of the capturing of the civilian people as prisoners by the Red Army, that was taking control over Northern Transylvania in the fall of 1944. This central, planned ...