Left-peripheral Free Relatives in Northern Basque

This paper was to be a contribution to a volume devoted to the left periphery of various languages which, unfortunately, was never published.xLeft-peripheral relative clauses (also known as correlative clauses) are widely attested in natural languages — in the Indo-European family, both ancient and modern, and outside of that domain too. Such is also the case of Basque, an isolate language spoken in South-Western France and Northern Spain, in which these Left-peripheric Free Relatives (LPFRs), are restricted to the Eastern dialects, i.e. those spoken in France, and the neighbouring subdialects spoken across the boundary, in Spanish Navarre..

Left-peripheral Free Relatives in Northern Basque

This paper was to be a contribution to a volume devoted to the left periphery of various languages which, unfortunately, was never published.xLeft-peripheral relative clauses (also known as correlative clauses) are widely attested in natural languages — in the Indo-European family, both ancient and modern, and outside of that domain too. Such is also the case of Basque, an isolate language spoken in South-Western France and Northern Spain, in which these Left-peripheric Free Relatives (LPFRs), are restricted to the Eastern dialects, i.e. those spoken in France, and the neighbouring subdialects spoken across the boundary, in Spanish Navarre..

A Pom Pom talány : egy új érv a szigorú ellipszisazonosság ellen

Theoretical and Experimental Linguistic

Word order in Hungarian exclamatives

This paper gives a syntactic overview and analysis of exclamative constructions in Hungarian. Its main purpose is to describe word order variation in exclamative clauses, in comparison with other sentence types. The formal properties of exclamatives that will be discussed here have important consequences for the theories of exclamatives and exclamativity in general. The empirical findings will force one to reconsider the syntactic theory of exclamatives put forward by Portner and Zanuttini (2003). The key modification affects the role focus plays in exclamatives: it will be shown that languages can use available syntactic means of focusing in the expression of exclamatives

Passive potential affixation: syntax or lexicon?

In this paper we will argue that contrary to the received view passive potential affixation in Hungarian primarily derives complex syntactic objects rather than adjectives. By means of a number of tests we show the differences between the two classes of items bearing the homophonous affix -ható/hető : one a nonfinite verb form, the other a lexicalized adjective. In addition to a syntactic analysis of this composite affix, a typology is provided for languages that have similar constructions

Szénhidrát alapú C- és CH2-szulfonsavak szintézise és biológiai vizsgálata, továbbá cukorszulfopeptidek előállítása = Synthesis and biological investigation of carbohydrate containing C- and CH2- sulfonic and that of the sugar sulfopeptides

Ötéves célkitűzésünk alatt 16 nemzetközi közleményt publikáltunk. Mindenekelőtt a szénhidrátszulfonsavak előállításának különböző lehetőségeit vizsgáltuk. Eredményesen valósítottuk meg az intra- és intermolekuláris nukleofil reakciókat. Legfontosabb célkitűzésünk, a a cukorszulfonsavak előállítására alkalmas reakciók vizsgálata, pl. az 1-tio-2-O-mezil-beta-D-glükozidok és 1-tio-2-O-mezil-alfa-D-mannozidok transzformációja 1,2-transz-D-manno- ill. glükopiranoziddá. Kiemelhető az exo-metilén csoport bevezetése és szulfonometil-csoporttá alakítása szulfit addícióval. Az izolált vegyületek konfigurációjának és konformációjának meghatározása 1H- és 13C-NMR segítségével, ill. oldat és szilárd fázisú chiroptikai módszerrel történt. Az N-acetilneuraminsav analógok szinétzisét L-fukózból kiindulva valósítottuk meg. A vegyület gyűrű-rendszere biológiai aktivitást mutat. A vegyületek hiányzó anomer protona következtében távolható NMR mérések és molekuláris számítások (QM) elengedhetetlenül szükségesek voltak. Magasabb tagszámú 3,6 elágazású arabinogalaktán oligoszacharidok (tetra és hexa) előállítását megvalósítottuk. A Mycobacterium avium 19-es szerovariáns sejtfelszíni pentaszacharidjának szintézisét a közelmúltban valósítottuk meg. A legvonzóbb eredmény a szulfonsavtartalmú heparinoid mono- és oligoszacharidok szintézise. Valamennyi építőelem alkalmas védőcsoportként kezelhető. Jelenleg 6 diszacharid egység a közeli jövőben pentaszacharidig teljesíthető. | As a result of our OTKA project, aimed, primarily, at the investigation of the possibilities for the preparation carbohydrate sulfonic acids, 16 papers were published in international journals. We realized the transformation of 1-thio-2-O-mesyl-beta-D-glucopyranosides and 1-thio-2-O-mesyl-alpha-D-mannopyranosides into 1,2-trans-D-manno- and glucopyranosides. An important result is the introduction of the exo-methylene group and its conversion into sulfonatomethyl moiety by sulfit addition. The determination of the configuration and conformation of the isolated compounds was carried out with NMR techniques, as well as by means of solution- and solid-phase chiroptical methods. The N-acetylneuraminic acid analogues were synthesized from L-fucose. The prepared compounds, carrying the demanded ring-system, showed biological activity. Due to the missing anomeric proton of such ketoses, long-range NMR coupling measurements and molecular calculatios (QM) were established. Our research group performed the preparation of 3.6-branched arabinogalactan oligosaccharides. The synthesis of the pentasaccharide of the Mycobact. avium serovar 19 was recently accomplished. Our most attractive results include those which are in connection with the sulfonatomethyl mono- and oligosaccharide analogues of heparin. The disaccharides of the required heparin-pentasaccharides have been synthesized

Synthesis of disaccharide fragments of the AT-III binding domain of heparin and their sulfonatomethyl analogues

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