132302 VO Descriptive Grammar of Hungarian II (2019W)

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the central aspects of the morphology and the structure of phrases and sentences in Hungarian.
This is the continuation of the course 'Descriptive Grammar of Hungarian I' from last semester.
Requirements: 'Descriptive Grammar of Hungarian I' or equivalent. Background is linguistics ('Introduction to Linguistics' or equivalent knowledge) is required, knowledge of Hungarian is a plus.
Topics:
The subject matter of morphology, the notion of the word, morphological categories, inflectional and derivational morphemes.
Inflection: nomial inflection, verb inflection, inflection of the infinitive, of postpositions, and of adjectives.
Derivation: problems of classification, lexicalised derivations, derivation from noun, adjective and verb stems, order of derivational morhemes.
Compounds: notion, classification, compounds with deverbal stems.
The subject matter of syntax.
Topik-predicate division in the Hungarian sentence structure.
The structure of the predicate: minimal predicate, focussing, quantification, negation.
The noun phrase, the postpositional phrase.
Non-finite verb phrases.
The syntax of clause embedding.