Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Linguistics
- Code
- BMI-ANGD17-CNy7aE.8
- Title
- Current Developments in Minimalist Syntax - Foundations and Perspectives: Hungarian and Uralic Syntax
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 3
- Language
- Learning outcomes
- This is an advanced seminar on the syntax of Hungarian in comparison with other Uralic languages. No knowledge of Hungarian is required. Knowledge of X-bar theory and movement theory is a pre-requisite, however.
- Course content
- The topics covered in this class include information structure, negation, and the structure of VPs, DPs and PPs.
- Assessment method
- In-class test at the end of the year.
- Bibliography
- Abondolo, Daniel, & Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi (eds.). 2023. The Uralic Languages (2nd ed.). Routledge. Bakró-Nagy, Marianne, Johanna Laakso & Elena Skribnik (eds). 2022. The Oxford Guide to the Uralic languages. OUP. É. Kiss, Katalin. 2002. The syntax of Hungarian. CUP.