Contrasting English with Hungarian
Author : Éva H. Stephanides
Publisher : Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Éva H. Stephanides
Publisher : Budapest : Akadémiai Kiadó
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 39,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN :
Author : Pal Heltai
Publisher : Editions L'Harmattan
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2024-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 2336405059
There is no denying that linguistic contrasts between languages can have an impact on the learning of foreign languages, and there is no doubt that an awareness of the differences between the mother tongue (L1) and the foreign or second language being learnt (L2) can help learners to acquire the L2. The aim of this book is to acquaint Hungarian students of English with some of the linguistic contrasts between English and Hungarian that may affect their own and their future students' learning of English. The author, Pál Heltai, provides a summary of the most important principles and concepts proposed by classical contrastive analysis, highlighting those that have retained their relevance for foreign language teaching over the years and presents an overview of the most important contrasts between English and Hungarian at the level of– phonetics, syntax, lexicology, pragmatics and translation. Most chapters consist of a theoretical introduction complemented by illustrative texts with example sentences and translations. The book provides a good opportunity for students to recapitulate or supplement some of the material covered earlier in their linguistics courses at university and shows the relevance of these disciplines to foreign language learning, teaching and translation. This is the revised version of the previous book, supplemented by suggested solutions to the exercises. This edition is also available online.
Author : Katarzyna Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 39,12 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781588112064
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutierrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Marta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.
Author : Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 50,64 MB
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902729674X
These volumes contain selected papers from the Second International Conference on Contrastive Semantics and Pragmatics that was held at Newnham College, University of Cambridge, in September 2000. They include papers on negation, temporality, modality, evidentiality, eventualities, grammar and conceptualization, grammaticalization, metaphor, cross-cultural pragmatics and speech acts and the semantics-pragmatics boundary. There are contributions by, amongst many others, Les Bruce, Ilinca Crainiceanu, Thorstein Fretheim, Saeko Fukushima, Ronald Geluykens, Javier Gutiérrez-Rexach, Klaus von Heusinger, K. M. Jaszczolt, Susumu Kubo, Akiko Kurosawa, Eva Lavric, Didier Maillat, Márta Maleczki, Steve Nicolle, Sergei Tatevosov, L. M. Tovena, Jacqueline Visconti and Krista Vogelberg.
Author : Sigrid Beck
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3110346192
This book offers an introduction to the derivation of meaning that is accessible and worked out to facilite an understanding of key issues in compositional semantics. The syntactic background offered is generative, the major semantic tool used is set theory. These tools are applied step-by-step to develop essential interface topics and a selection of prominent contrastive topics with material from English and German.
Author : Judit Hajnal Ward
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 20,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780781809191
Hungarian is spoken by approximately ten million people in Hungary and by an additional three million people throughout Eastern Europe, the United States, and elsewhere in the world. This dictionary and phrasebook offers the essential vocabulary that English speakers will need while visiting some of Hungary's 1,000 hot springs and 1,500 castles.
Author : Richard S. Kayne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,97 MB
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0199732523
Comparisons and Contrasts collects eleven of Richard Kayne's recent articles in theoretical syntax, with an emphasis on comparative syntax, which uses syntactic differences among languages to probe the properties of the human language faculty. Kayne attaches particular importance to uncovering the primitives of syntax/semantics, demonstrating the existence of silent elements that are syntactically and semantically active, and showing their distribution and limitations. He attempts to derive the very existence of the noun-verb distinction-and to account for the sharp differences between nouns and verbs and for the lack of parallelism between them-from the antisymmetric character of syntax. The common theme is an exploration of how wide a range of questions the field of syntax can reasonably attempt to ask and then answer.Comparisons and Contrasts will appeal to scholars and graduate students interested in syntax, semantics, and their effects on other areas of linguistics.
Author : Géza Takács
Publisher : Hippocrene Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 30,43 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780781803175
A Hungarian-English dictionary with useful vocabulary and expressions and common-sense pronunciation
Author : Marta Ruda
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 13,47 MB
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 902726483X
Focusing on objects, this book aims at contributing to the on-going inquiry into modelling structures with missing arguments. In addition to offering detailed discussion and analyses of a unique combination of three very different systems (English, Polish, and Hungarian), a larger goal here is to provide a framework for deriving cross-linguistic and intra-linguistic variation in the domain of object drop. Variation of this type is hypothesised to follow, first and foremost, from the association of heads in the extended nominal projection with phonemic features and from the system of interpretation of nominal expressions in a language. The book will be of interest to both theoretically- and descriptively-oriented researchers, since, even though its focus is theoretical, a detailed discussion of the empirical facts, including some novel findings drawn from corpus studies and grammaticality judgements, is also offered.
Author : Don L. F. Nilsen
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 12,38 MB
Release : 2010-01-27
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1478609796
In this vibrant second edition, the authors have drawn from their own multiple years of teaching and from the knowledge and ideas of 50 linguists and ESL teachers who specialize in particular languages. New to this edition is Part I, an entire section on English spelling as a morphophonemic system. Here, Nilsen and Nilsen clearly explain concepts and patterns of English spelling, pronunciation, and meaning to ease the process of learning English for non-native studentsas well as their teachers. In addition, the authors provide sample activities that creatively and effectively engage students in grasping a particular concept, and include illustrative examples that show English is a systemic language. In Part II, the authors provide extensive lists of both vowel and consonant contrasts, each with phonetic diagrams and descriptions, minimal pairs (both isolated and in sentences), and specific languages for which the contrast may be problematic. These valuable examples help students hear and produce pronunciation differences that are important in English and bring their pronunciation closer to that of native English speakers. Both prospective and practicing teachers will appreciate the flexibility and freedom afforded by these well-designed materials.