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Beliefs and hypotheses in Uralistics

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Honti L.
Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)
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2004
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vol. 100
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issue 1
1-15
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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.
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Myths about the origin of the Hungarian language

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Honti L.
Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlemenyek (Linguistic Studies)
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2004
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vol. 101
137-151
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Ever since the Hungarian language has been written, its genetic affiliation has been a recurring question. The evidence accumulating from the eighteenth century onwards proves that Hungarian belongs to the Uralic family. For the past fifty years, ideas of a more aristocratic and romantic ancestry have flooded bookshops and all forms of media. These ideas are promulgated by people who (1) entirely lack scientific training or (2) are professionals in some branch of science other than linguistics or (3) have received training in linguistics and actively work on one of its subdisciplines. Consequently there are large differences in argumentation and the content of these 'theories'. Those in groups (1) and (2) tend to make pronouncements on historical and comparative linguistics that show total incompetence, whereas those in (3) tend to be incompetent in specific questions they address and often produce large quantities of pompous misinformation that only serves to deceive the unsuspecting reader. The present paper describes the major characteristics of such works but does not mention the names of their authors because those who are totally untrained do not deserve to be named in a linguistic forum, whereas those who are perhaps justly respected specialists of other fields deserve to be tactfully left unidentified.
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The system and morphology of Vogul kinship terms

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Biro B.
Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlemenyek (Linguistic Studies)
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2004
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vol. 101
32-56
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The paper discussess the kinship terminology in Vogul (Mansi) language. After giving an overview of the research on kinship terms in Finno-Ugric languages the author presents the principles which underlie the formation of the Vogul kinship system. The paper also examines the morphological structure of Vogul kinship terms and their occurence in recent Vogul texts. Finally the list of Vogul kinship terms collected by the author is presented.
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Semantics, meaning change and mythology

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Widmer A.
Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlemenyek (Linguistic Studies)
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2004
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vol. 101
7-31
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In this article I am going to treat a group of words of the Finno-Ugric languages, which in all my opinion belong to the same mythological context: the so-called twin cult, which is more or less independently known in most of the cultures. The main question in this analysis is, whether it is important to know the cultural background in order to establish an etymology - an old question, which the answer is no in classic Finno-Ugrian studies: although the knowledge of the backgrounds is theoretically considered to be important, in general an etymology, which does not treat any cultural considerations, is judged to be better than an etymology that does. The first part treats the Finno-Ugric relatives of Estonian jama, jäma 'joint; space between two parts belonging together'. The second part is about the Ugric forms that are related to Hungarian jó 'good'. In this context I am going to refer to the etymological and mythological backgrounds of the Ugrian form *manc<. Finally an Ob-Ugric word family will be discussed. All the words under consideration are closely related to (Indo-)Iranian mythological conceptions.
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Etymologies

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Redei K.
Nyelvtudomanyi Kozlemenyek (Linguistic Studies)
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2004
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vol. 101
130-136
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The etymologies of the following words are discussed: 342 Vogul siyman 'beautiful'; 343 Vogul-Ostyak por 'the name of an exogamous group'; 344. Ostyak kasän 'each, every'; 345. Ostyak towä 'stern, poop'; 346. Ostyak vantas-, -as-, 'to fight (with sy)', 347. Zyrian Ä1Äs 'door'; 348. Zyrian kabackÄj jÄgar 'drunk-ard, pub-crawler'; 349: Zyrian l'amba 'with hanging ears (dog)'; 350. Mordvin cud'i-ved' 'river'.
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