Hungarian Studies in London
In the last class, we took a look at the noun system in a northern dialect of Mansi (Vogul), and started on a bear poem.
The order of noun suffixes works as follows: number + possession + case. As we’ve already mentioned, Sygva Vogul is elaborate in marking number: it has separate sets of endings [...]
Our posts on the Ob-Ugric classes are a work in progress, based on notes taken during the lessons and tidied up into legible, readable form. Any errors are attributable solely to their anonymous authors!
Here’s a misunderstanding from a couple of posts ago. I mentioned that Munkácsi’s collections of Mansi song and verse (Bernát Munkácsi, [...]
There will not be a seminar tomorrow, Friday 23 February. See you next week instead.
Last session we looked at a table summarising the main features of Sygva Vogul verbs, including the order of various inflectional suffixes.
In Sygva, the order of these suffixes is not as fixed as in Hungarian, where mood and tense markers always precede personal suffixes. While Hungarian has an entirely different paradigm of personal suffixes to [...]
As the first paper presentation in our seminar series focusing on specific themes, Daniel Abondolo introduced work by Dezső Szabó, one of the most influential writers and extreme right-wing thinkers of the interwar period, on Friday, 2 February. The discussion centred exclusively on Szabó’s style as a prose writer, intentionally disregarding what Daniel called Szabó’s [...]