Agreement phenomena in young adult fiction
Part 1
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.4.436Keywords:
Endre Rácz, series for young people, number agreement, object agreementAbstract
This paper is dedicated to the memory of Endre Rácz (1922–1992) who was born a hundred years ago. He was a professor at the Department of Modern Hungarian Linguistics of the Faculty of Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University, with an outstanding knowledge of grammar of Hungarian, and an expert on questions pertaining to agreement phenomena. The present study focuses on number agreement between the subject and the predicate, but it covers certain other types of agreement phenomena as well. The examples are drawn from the Hungarian translation of the Harry Potter-series on the one hand, and from three Hungarian series targeting young readers on the other hand. The author presents data that captured his attention either because they were agrammatical or strange, or because they were thought to be suitable for fine-tuning the previous findings of the literature, or useful for making the previous results more easily interpretable. A further aim is to provide university education with a tool that offairs both useful knowledge and enjoyable experience.
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