The Hungarian language. Presentation

Présentation d'une langue: le hongrois

Anna Sörés (1)

1 UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2

The paper provides a general presentation of Hungarian: it describes his external history, the genetic relationship inside of the Uralic language family and the long migration leading the population from the original home until the Carpathian basin. The language structure is presented following the descriptive levels: i) phonetic and phonology, in particular the vowel harmony; ii) morphology: a non-prototypical ‘agglutinating’ language with rich case system and the ‘double conjugation’ according to the definiteness of the direct object; iii) syntax: basic constituent order SVO but dependent – head order all types of constructions; accusative alignment; some valency changing operations and some particularities of relativization. The last chapter provides a detailed description of the system of verbal prefixes called preverbs. The presentation ends with an excerpt of a literary text with glosses and translation.

Mots clés: Hungarian; Uralic languages; vowel harmony; agglutination; case system; double conjugation; preverbs; word order

Domaines: Linguistique

Anna Sörés. Présentation d'une langue: le hongrois. LALIES 34, 34, pp.75-131, 2014, ISBN 978-2-7288-0520-4. ⟨hal-01108914⟩