ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics

List of John Benjamins publications that have an author or editor affiliated with ELTE Research Centre for Linguistics*

Gugán, Katalin 2026 Outliers in language variation and change: Atypical users of the variants of negation in Old and Early Middle Hungarian

Keywords: negation | verb modifiers | complex predicates | word order | Old Hungarian | Middle Hungarian | outliers

In: Historical Linguistics 2023: Selected papers from the 26th International Conference on Historical Linguistics,Heidelberg, 4-8 September 2023, Gvozdanović, Jadranka (ed.) [Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, 371] pp. 30–54

Shi, Wenrui, Dániel Z. Kádár, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu 2026 Unsolicited advice in mediatised Chinese New Year celebrations: An interaction ritual approach

Keywords: unsolicited advice | Chinese New Year celebrations | Douyin (TikTok) | ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 28 pp. | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z., Yafeng Liu, Juliane House & Fengguang Liu 2026 Interpreting literalised rituals as a genre: The case of Shijing (‘The Book of Odes’)

Keywords: literalised ritual | register | Ritual Frame Indicating Expressions | Shijing (‘The Book of Odes’) | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 27:2 pp. 207–234 | article | open access

Lipp, Veronika & Gábor Prószéky 2025 Challenges and strategies for a unified approach: The Hungarian case

Keywords: Hungarian terminology planning | language policy | language planning | standardization | minorities

In: Handbook of Terminology: Volume 4. Terminology planning in Europe, Resi, Rossella & Frieda Steurs (eds.) [Handbook of Terminology, 4] pp. 218–238

Babarczy, Anna & Ágnes Lukács 2025 The acquisition of Hungarian morphology and syntax

Keywords: allomorphy | case and agreement | focus | verbal prefixes | word order

In: First Language Acquisition in Finno-Ugric Languages, Kirjavainen, Minna, Ágnes Lukács & Virve-Anneli Vihman (eds.) [Trends in Language Acquisition Research, 33] pp. 271–309

Han, Dan, Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Complaining in historical Chinese criminal trials

Keywords: Complain | interaction | late imperial Chinese criminal trials | ritual | speech acts

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:3 pp. 438–466 | article | open access

Egedi, Barbara 2025 Demonstrative modifiers in Middle Hungarian: A complex picture of renewal

Keywords: competition | demonstrative | determiner | doubling | historical corpus | Hungarian | reanalysis | reinforcement | renewal | syntactic change

Journal of Historical Linguistics 15:2 pp. 292–314 | article | open access

Liu, Fengguang, Li Zhang, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2025 Flattery in historical China: A pragmatic perspective

Keywords: flattery | historical Chinese | interaction ritual | speech acts | interaction

Pragmatics | Online First Publication, 30 pp. | article | open access

House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Tadej Todorović, Matjaž Klemenčič, David Hazemali, Tomaž Onič & Katja Plemenitaš 2024 Capturing power in diplomatic language use: The case of a closed-door mediatory negotiation and its aftermath during the breakup of the former Yugoslavia

Keywords: diplomatic mediation | negotiation | power | speech acts | Yugoslavia

Journal of Language and Politics 24:5 pp. 713–740 | article | open access

Chen, Jiejun, Juliane House & Dániel Z. Kádár 2024 Chinese “face”-related expressions in Peking and Teochew Opera scripts: A historical contrastive pragmatic inquiry

Keywords: “face”-related expressions | historical contrastive analysis | Mandarin | Minnan | Peking Opera | Teochew Opera

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 26:2 pp. 175–205 | article | open access

2024 Preface

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 3:1 pp. 1–3 | introduction

Halm, Tamás 2024 Reconstructing the decoupling of case and agreement in Old Hungarian: Evidence from epithets and names as syntactic fossils

Keywords: case | agreement | information structure | syntactic reconstruction | Ugric | Uralic | Old Hungarian

Diachronica 41:1 p. 99 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2023 Review of Directional Particles in Cantonese: Form, Function, and Grammaticalization by Winnie Chor (2018)

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:2 pp. 332–337 | book review | open access

den Dikken, Marcel 2023 Associative plurals and their associates: An integrated approach to the nominal plural markers of Hungarian

Keywords: multiplicative plural | possessive plural | associative plural | anaphoric possessive | predication | asyndetic specification | silent nouns | pronouns | demonstratives

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 pp. 50–73 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House & Hao Liu 2023 Beyond the deferential view of the Chinese V pronoun nin 您

Keywords: Chinese | V pronoun | nin | disagreement

Pragmatics 35:2 pp. 155–184 | article

Baló, Márton A. & Zuzana Bodnárová 2023 Gender reduction in contact: The case of Romani in nineteenth-century Hungary

Keywords: gender loss | gender reduction | language contact | language obsolescence | language attrition | contact-induced language change | Romani | Romani dialects | metrolingualism

Diachronica 40:5 pp. 578–608 | article | open access

House, Juliane, Dániel Z. Kádár, Fengguang Liu & Wenrui Shi 2023 Historical language use in Europe from a contrastive pragmatic perspective: An exploratory case study of letter closings

Keywords: contrastive pragmatics | family letters | farewell | speech act

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 143–159 | article

Kádár, Dániel Z., Gudrun Held & Annick Paternoster 2023 Introduction: Politeness in and across Historical Europe

Journal of Historical Pragmatics 24:1 pp. 1–15 | introduction

Burukina, Irina 2023 On the syntax of postpositional phrases in Mari: Choosing between two structures

Keywords: postposition | spatial case | locative | dative | possession | agreement | Mari | Uralic

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:2 pp. 158–193 | article | open access

Bárkányi, Zsuzsanna & Zoltán G. Kiss 2023 Production and perception of voicing contrast in assimilation contexts in Hungarian

Keywords: voicing contrast | neutralisation | regressive voicing assimilation | perception | minimal pairs | homophony avoidance | perceptual compensation | wordedness | Hungarian

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 p. 5 | article

den Dikken, Marcel & Éva Dékány 2023 The morphosyntax of the Hungarian sociative and dissociative suffixes

Keywords: sociative | dissociative | depictive | locative | ablative | essive | negation

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 pp. 74–95 | article | open access

Gyuris, Beáta 2023 The semantics of ejsze in the Székely dialect of Hungarian

Keywords: pragmatic marker | use condition | inferential evidential | sentence type | speech act

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 2:1 pp. 127–153 | article | open access

Kuna, Ágnes & Ágnes Hámori 2023 Metapragmatics and reflections in support of knowledge transfer and common ground in doctor-patient interaction

Keywords: health communication | doctor-patient discourse | metapragmatic expressions | knowledge transfer | construction of common ground

In: A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah & Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.) [Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 338] pp. 200–226

Holmberg, Anders & Balázs Surányi 2022 Editorial foreword

Keywords: Uralic | formal | typological | descriptive | experimental

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1 pp. 1–3 | editorial

den Dikken, Marcel 2022 Ordinals, reflexives and unaccusatives: Unification by predication

Keywords: ordinals | reflexives | unaccusatives | predication | reflexive clitic se | -ik

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:2 pp. 215–238 | article | open access

Márquez Reiter, Rosina & Dániel Z. Kádár 2022 Sociality and moral conflicts: Migrant stories of relational vulnerability

Keywords: sociality | sociability | moral oughts | social oughts | Chinese | Latin American | (im)politeness

Pragmatics and Society 13:1 pp. 1–21 | article

Kiss, Katalin É. & Nikolett Mus 2022 The reflexive cycle: From reflexive to personal pronoun in Uralic

Keywords: reflexive | personal pronoun | intensifier | differential object marking | accusative case | possessive agreement | Uralic | Ob-Ugric | Tundra Nenets | linguistic cycle

Journal of Uralic Linguistics 1:1 pp. 43–66 | article

Borise, Lena & Katalin É. Kiss 2022 The emergence of conjunctions and phrasal coordination in Khanty

Keywords: Khanty | Uralic | coordination | conjunctions | conjunction reduction | ellipsis | co-compounds

Journal of Historical Linguistics 13:2 pp. 173–219 | article | open access

Kádár, Dániel Z. 2022 Review of Politeness in the History of English – From the Middle Ages to the Present Day by Andreas H. Jucker (2020)

Pragmatics and Society 12:5 pp. 865–869 | book review

Gugán, Katalin & Anne Tamm 2021 Russian influence on Surgut Khanty and Estonian aspect is limited but similar

Keywords: pattern borrowing | aspect | Aktionsart | Surgut Khanty | Estonian | partitive | frequentative | iterative | imperfective | perfective

In: Language Contact in the Territory of the Former Soviet Union, Forker, Diana & Lenore A. Grenoble (eds.) [IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 50] pp. 183–216

Kádár, Dániel Z., Juliane House, Fengguang Liu & Yulong Song 2021 Admonishing: A paradoxical pragmatic behaviour in ancient China

Keywords: admonishing | speech act | Suggest | ancient China | ritual

Pragmatics 31:2 pp. 173–197 | article | open access

Patay, Fanni, Ágnes Benkő, Ágnes Lukács, Péter Rebrus & Miklós Törkenczy 2020 Testing variability effects in Hungarian vowel harmony

Keywords: vowel harmony | variation | vacillation | neutral vowels | experimental phonology

In: Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika & Irene Vogel (eds.) [Approaches to Hungarian, 16] p. 97 | open access

*Please note that this list may be inaccurate for older publications.