Beliefs and hypotheses in Uralistics

• Authors: Honti L.
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses certain assumptions that have been made within Uralistics, some of which are closely connected to the remote past of the Hungarian language. The author provides a critical survey of some unfounded hypotheses - or rather beliefs - that have been published over the past few decades and attempts to counter them with well-founded hypotheses. The specific issues are as follows: 1. the original (Proto-Uralic/Proto-Finno-Ugric) order of possessive suffixes and case suffixes; 2. the age and origin of Hungarian preverbs; 3. the explanation of Hungarian numerals exhibiting a locative structure (e.g. 'tiz-en -egy' (eleven), literally 'one - on-ten') that traces them back to Slavic; 4. the emergence of congruence between a noun and its adjectival modifier in Hungarian and other Uralic languages; 5. the issue of whether Proto-Ugric really existed.

Keywords

EN

FINNO-UGRIC; HUNGARIAN PREVERBS; URALIC LANGUAGES

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Society of Hungarian Linguistics
• Journal: Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
• Year: 2004
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-15
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Honti L.

• L. Honti, no address given, contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

05HUAAAA00501264