László Honti

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László Honti

László Honti (born August 27, 1943 in Lengyeltóti ) is a Hungarian Finnougrist and member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences .

Life

László Honti began his studies at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest in 1963 and spent the academic year 1966/1967 as a scholarship holder in Finland at the universities of Turku and Helsinki . In 1970 he was in Budapest with a thesis on the Mansische doctorate . From 1980 to 1988 he headed the Ural Languages ​​research group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. In 1988 he was appointed full professor of Finnish-Ugrian studies at the University of Groningen , and in 1997 he moved to the University of Udine , where he remained active until 2008. He was then called to the private Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Budapest.

Honti is a member of numerous scientific organizations and has been President of the Societas Uralo-Altaica since 2012 .

research

Honti's research focus was initially on Obugrian languages , later he turned primarily to questions of general comparative Finno-Ugric studies. He has presented relevant work on the historical morphosyntax of the Finno-Ugric languages ​​as well as on lexicology, above all on Numeralia .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • System of paradigmatic suffix morphemes of the Vogul dialect on the Tawda . The Hague, Paris: Mouton 1975. 161 pp.
  • History of Obugrian vowelism of the first syllable . Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó 1982. 227 pp.
  • Chrestomathia Ostiacica . Budapest: Tankönyvkiadó 1984. 285 pp.
  • The basic numerals of the Uralic languages . Budapest: Akadémia Kiadó 1993. 356 pp.
  • Az ugor alapnyelv kérdéséhez . Budapest: ELTE Finnugor Tanszék 1997. 63 p. [Budapesti Finnugor Füzetek 7)
  • A nyelvrokonságról. Az török, sumer és egyéb áfium ellen való orvosság . Főszerkesztő Honti László. Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó 2010. 345 pp.

items

  • Yat-il eu une langue ougrienne primitive ?, in: Études Finno-Ougriennes 15 (1978–1979), 1982, pp. 165–174.
  • Criteria for the classification of the dialects of Vogul, in: Dialectologia Uralica. Materials of the first international symposium on the dialectology of the Uralic languages ​​4. – 7. September 1984 in Hamburg. Edited by Wolfgang Veenker . Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1985 (negotiations of the Societas Uralo-Altaica 20), pp. 231–250.
  • The Ob-Ugric Languages, in: The Uralic Languages. Description, History and Foreign Influences. Edited by Denis Sinor . Leiden et al .: Brill 1988 (Handbuch der Orientalistik. Echte Department, 1), pp. 147-196.
  • Statistical to the Ural etymological dictionary, in: Linguistica Uralica 29 (1993), pp. 241-258.
  • Slavic influence on the Finnish-Ugric languages, in: Incontri Linguistici 17 (1994), pp. 81-101.
  • Morphotactics and morphosyntax of the Ural / Finnish-Ugric basic language, in: Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum 8, I, Jyväskylä 1995, pp. 53–82.
  • How far could the Urfinnougrians call the numbers? (Notes on an incorrectly formulated question), in: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 53 (1996), pp. 309–329.
  • Number problems (an exploratory train through the jungle of Uralic numbers), in: Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen 54 (1997), pp. 1–126.
  • The negation in Ural, in: Linguistica Uralica 33 (1997), pp. 81-96; Pp. 161-176; Pp. 241-252.
  • Mere agreement or causal connection? Comments on the alleged foreign-language origin of the compound past tense and the auditory in Uralic languages, in: Incontri Linguistici 20 (1997), pp. 159–181.
  • About the means of negation in Ural, especially the "Turkish" type "in some Ural languages, in: Europa et Sibiria. Contributions to the language and culture of the smaller Finno-Ugric, Samoyed and Paleo-Siberian peoples. Commemorative volume for Wolfgang Veenker . Edited by Cornelius Hasselblatt and Paula Jääsalmi-Krüger, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1999 (publications of Sociateas Uralo-Altaica 51), pp. 191–198.
  • Basic language or disagreement? (A little bit of information on the latest strange ideas in Ural Studies), in: Amant alterna Camenae. Studi linguistici e letterari offerti a Andrea Csillaghy in occasione del suo 60 ° compleanno. A cura doe Augusto Carli, Beatrice Töttössy, Nicoletta Vasta. Torino 2000, pp. 129-151.
  • On the origin of the paradigmatic vowel change in Ostyak. (Contribution to the discussion on Helimski's attempted explanation), in: Finnisch-Ugrische Mitteilungen 23 (2001), pp. 45–61.
  • A lingua franca as the basic language. Joking or serious? - Studi offerti ad Alexandru Niculescu dagli amici e allievi di Udine. A cura di Sergio Vatteroni. Udine: Forum 2001, pp. 105-118.
  • Verbal 'prefixation' in the Uralic languages, in: Acta Linguistica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 50 (2003), pp. 137-153.
  • All that glitters is not gold ... About some Central European isoglosses: Results of mutual influence or internal, spontaneous developments ?, in: Plurilinguismo. Constatti di lingue e culture 12 (2005), pp. 37-52.
  • Research on the prehistory of the Hungarian language, in: Balázs Gusztáv Mende (Hrsg.): Research on the prehistory of the Hungarians: A review. Budapest: Akaprint Nyomdaipari Kft 2005, pp. 157-169.
  • Syntactic constructions of foreign origin. A skeptical opinion, in: Incontri Linguistici 30 (2007), pp. 49-70.
  • Globalization / Europeanization of European Finnish-Ugric languages ​​?, in: Rogier Blokland , Cornelius Hasselblatt (eds.): Language and Identity in the Finno-Ugric World. Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Finno-Ugric Languages ​​at the University of Groningen, May 17-19, 2006. Maastricht: Shaker 2007, pp. 117-142.
  • Did the Hungarians learn to count from the Slavs? Again to the origin of the Hungarian tiz-en-egy etc. '11, ie: 1 on the 10 'etc., in: Kees Dekker et al. (Ed.): Northern Voices. Essays on Old Germanic and Related Topics, Offered to Professor Tette Hofstra. Leuven et al .: Peeters 2008, pp. 295-311.
  • 'Habere' "po-ural'ski", in: Lingustica Uralica 44 (2008), pp. 161–177.

Literature on the author

  • Ünnepi kills Honti László tiszteletére. Szerkesztette Bakró-Nagy Marianne, Rédei Károly. Budapest 2003. 414 pp.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ A complete list of publications including up to 2002 can be found in his Festschrift: Ünnepi köt Honti László tiszteletére . Szerkesztette Bakró-Nagy Marianne, Rédei Károly. Budapest 2003, pp. 11-26
personal data
SURNAME Honti, László
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian Finnougrist
DATE OF BIRTH August 27, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Lengyeltóti