Katalin Kiss, of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest, has brought together in this volume substantial new results in a novel field of research.The text analyzes the syntactic and semantic co
The authors of this volume analyze Older Egyptian, Coptic, Sumerian, Akkadian, Biblical Hebrew, Classical Greek, Latin, and Classical Sanskrit as instantiations of Universal Grammar, which enables the
This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years.
Primarily adhering to the basic outline of Hungarian sentence structure that she proposed in the late 1970s, based on a generative syntactic theory, Kiss (linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) a
