Adrian Buck’s Reviews > Hungarian: An Essential Grammar > Status Update

"The construction with 'megvan' is used when a person has an expected item with him/her, it is not lost, and/or it is ready for use" - sounds like the accurate use of 'has got' compared to 'has'.

footnote "In addition to their use auxilliary verbs, these verbs may also stand alone, hence the term 'quasi-auxilliary'" - desperately need an IGT (an international grammatical terminology)

" In Hungarian [the direct object can be used as the verbal complement] as long as the verbal complement is not individuated" - definite direct objects not allowed? What does she mean by this? Examples please!

"the sentence is ungrammatical if the preverb position is incorrectly filled" - we desperately need examples here, and definitions of 'grammatical' and 'correct'. It's exciting to read a fuller treatment of Hungarian word order, but disappointing that it is so unclear.

"Two main sentence types are pertinent for Hungarian in the dicussion or word order... the 'neutral sentence' and the 'focus' type." - all previous discussions of Hungarian word order I have read have concentrated on the focus position before the board. I too have noticed a similarity to the Topic/Comment tructure of English sentences, but her analysis here is still too vague to be convincing.

...Hungarian sentences, however, may be written in a variety of word orders and would have English equivalents requiring either a change in intonation or a different expression altogether" - different languages using different features of language - syntax, phonology, lexis - to create the same meaning.

'Fractions...the s3 possessive is with or without formed with or without the 'j' (unless used in dates, then it is always formed without the j). - Fatigue is really setting in now; an entirely useless 'rule', followed by an equivocation.

'ennélfogva 'consequently, thus'' - new to me, how essential is this?

"ugyanis - for, since because
hiszen - for, since, because'
- not helpful. If the words are completely synonymous, say so: if they are not, explain why.

'This suffix makea intransitive verbs" - repeated four times, she's getting tired now.