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The International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian is a meeting organized biannually for linguists working on or having an interest in any linguistically relevant synchronic or diachronic aspect of the Hungarian language, approached from theoretical and empirical perspectives.

The application period is now open! See the Application page for more information.  Early-bird application deadline: April 23rd, 2023General application deadline:  May 21st, 2023We plan for the school to be held fully offline/ in person. (If there is sufficient interest, we will arrange for a synchronous Zoom connection for the classes, in order to allow for hybrid participation, but the amount of support for online participants may be limited and will be at the lecturer’s discretion – e.g., wit ...

The talk focuses on infinitival clauses in Mari (Uralic) that allow dative subjects and optional subject agreement (INFL). I discuss these constructions in detail and argue that no subject Case is available within the infinitival TP itself and that no functional head in the embedded clause is responsible for INFL. Instead, I propose that dative is assigned by a higher functional head of a specific type, and INFL depends on a predication relation and does not manifest Agree. These two claims are ...