Download or read book The Evolution of Functional Left Peripheries in Hungarian Syntax written by Katalin É Kiss and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2014 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book adopts a generative framework to investigate the diachronic syntax of Hungarian, one of only a handful of non-Indo-European languages with a documented history spanning more than 800 years. It focuses particularly on the restructuring of Hungarian syntax from head-final to head-initial and the resultant changes that occurred.