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What else are you going to use? And it turns out to be great
Akademiai Kiado's two dictionaries, MAGYAR-ANGOL SZOTAR (ISBN 9630569434) and ANGOL-MAGYAR SZOTAR (ISBN 9630569426) are the only real option for English-speaking students of Hungarian in search of a pocket dictionary. The only competition, Hippocrene's awful pocket offering and the Rough Guide Hungarian phrasebook (which turns out to just be a normal dictionary) contain so few items and are typeset unreadably to even come close to Akademiai Kiado's.

Edited by Tamas Magay and Laszlo Kiss, the dictionaries are sold in bookshops in Hungary and are mainly focused at Hungarians. However, the editors were kind enough to make these entirely useful for English speakers. The Hungarian foreword has an English translation, the list of abbreviations has explanations in both English and Hungarian, and there's a layout of Hungarian speech sounds just for foreigners. MAGYAR-ANGOL SZOTAR contains three appendices. The first, a table of English irregular verbs, and the second, a short list of English irregular nouns, need not concern us. However, the third, conversions between metric and imperial weights and measures (and their English and Hungarian terminology) will prove quite useful for the foreigner travelling in Hungary.

The dictionaries are durable (hardcovers with no dust cover), insanely cheap (especially when bought on the spot), and relatively recent (1995). There's no better option for pocket dictionaries, highly recommended to all students of Hungarian. ... Read more

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Hungarian syntax has played a vital, albeit much debated role in linguistic theory since the early 1980s. Volume 27 of Syntax and Sematics is the result of a project on Hungarian syntax launched in the early 1980s at the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. The volume illuminates relevant and insightful aspects of Hungarian syntax. It assumes the basic theoretical claims and the basic methodology of generative linguistic theory, and shows that descriptive grammar is best approached by posing theoretically interesting questions.

Key Features
* Features comprehensive coverage of Hungarian syntax
* Presents a complete analysis of salient questions and theories
* Offers new insights into Hungarian syntax
* Discusses the important role Hungarian syntax has played in linguistic theory throughout the past decade ... Read more

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This is the first comprehensive account of Hungarian stress and intonation to appear in English. The emphasis is on description, but a large number of theoretical issues are also dealt with in an original way. Hungarian is a Uralic or Finno-Agric language spoken by over 13 million people in Central Europe. The study of its stress and intonation will be of special interest to intonationists, phonologists, Hungarian language specialists, and their students at intermediate level and above.
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In this book Archibald describes two studies conducted within aparametric framework in the area of second language acquisition. Thestudies are designed to investigate the acquisition of English stresspatterns (via both production and perception tasks) by adult speakersof Polish and Hungarian. Archibald argues that interlanguage grammarscan be understood as a mix of L1 transfer and the effects of UniversalGrammar. Metrical parameters related to such things asquantity--sensitivity, extrametricality, and word--tree dominancedetermine the structure of the interlanguage. The author reports thatthe subjects are remarkably successful at acquiring English stress anddo not appear to violate proposed universals of metricalphonology.
This book is one of the few attempts to investigate the acquisition ofL2 phonology within a UG framework. Empirical support is provided forthe parametric model to an extent uncommon in most syntacticstudies.
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The book contains eleven articles on theoretical problems in Albanian, Hungarian, Polish, (Old) Russian, Romanian, and the South Slavic languages of Bulgarian, Macedonian, Serbo-Croatian, and Slovenian. They cover topics such as clitics, head and phrasal movement, the structure of the DP, and clause structure. A number of papers refer to and make systematic comparisons with languages outside the region, including Breton, German, Hebrew, and Welsh. Since the papers were selected from an international conference in Spring 1998 in Szeged, Hungary, they represent the crossing of boundaries in three senses: the physical sense, by comparing genetically unrelated languages, and by examining properties of movement across categories.Contributions by: Alexandra Cornilescu, Marcel den Dikken, Dalina Kallulli, Katalin . Kiss, Hilda Koopman and Anna Szabolcsi, Iliyana Krapova, Ljiljana Progovac, Maria Lusa Rivero, Olga Mieska Tomic, Ewa Willim, David Willis. ... Read more

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The hippest, most contemporary guide on the market, this phrasebook will help you learn the unique and complex Hungarian language. With comprehensive translation sections, and guides to tackling the difficult Hungarian pronunciations, you'll be chatting with the locals in no time. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Beware: NOT a Phrasebook!
I must agree with the first review that this is NOT a phrasebook at all!
After an introduction of Hungarian grammar on 30 pages or so (which is not bad and the only reason I gave it even 2 stars), there follows an alphabetically arranged dictionary, with phrases containing some of the words listed inserted under the word's listing, and boxed texts on cultural hints scattered throughout.
Calling this a phrasebook is a misnomer!

If you want a real phrasebook, go for the Berlitz or the Lonely Planet one.

Pitiful, avoid it at all costs
Rough Guide's HUNGARIAN PHRASEBOOK is one of the poorest phrasebooks I have ever come across. In fact, it isn't even a real phrasebook, but rather a slim dictionary with occassional cultural commentary. This was *totally* unhelpful on my trip to Hungary, and I feel sorry for anyone who has purchased it.

Bottom line: get Berlitz's phrasebook instead, but steer clear of this one. ... Read more

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Divided into six main sections, this text examines the syntax of the A' positions within the Hungarian (Magyar) language. ... Read more