Publications
BOOK:
- Hungarian. (Routledge Descriptive Grammars). With co-authors István Kenesei and Robert M. Vago. London and New York: Routledge, xxxiv+472, 1998.
EDITED VOLUMES:
- Hungarian language contact outside Hungary: Studies in Hungarian as a minority language. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, XXII-425, 2005.
- Language contact and the verbal complex of Dutch and Hungarian: Working papers from the 1st Bilingual Language Use Theme Meeting of the Study Centre on Language Contact, November 11-13, 1999, Szeged, Hungary. With co-editor Klára Sándor. Szeged: JGyTF Press, pp. 196, 2000.
- Mi a szleng? Tanulmányok a szleng fogalmáról [What is slang? Papers on the notion of slang]. With co-editors Tamás Kis and Judit Szilvia Várnai. Debrecen: Kossuth Egyetemi Kiadó, pp. 285, 1999.
ARTICLES:
- The role of perception in loanword adaptation: The fate of initial unstressed syllables in American Finnish and American Hungarian.. With co-author Gyula Zsigri. SKY Journal of Linguistics, 19:131–146. 2006.
- Az USA nyelvpolitikájának hatása az amerikai magyarok anyanyelvi oktatására [How U.S. language policy has affected the mother tongue education of American Hungarians]. In: Attila Benõ & Sándor Szilágyi N, eds. Nyelvi közösségek – nyelvi jogok [Linguistic communities and linguistic rights]. Kolozsvár: Anyanyelvápolók Erdélyi Szövetsége, 105-115, 2006.
- Contact effects in Toledo Hungarian: Quantitative findings. In: Greg Watson & Pekka Hirvonen, eds. Finno-Ugric language contacts. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 157–177, 2006.
- Hungarian in the United States. In: Anna Fenyvesi, ed. Hungarian language contact outside Hungary: Studies in Hungarian as a minority language. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 265–318, 2005.
- A toledoi magyarok nyelve: Nonstandard nyelvhasználat vagy a nyelvkontaktus hatása? [The language of Toledo Hungarians: Nonstandard language use or the effect of language contact?] In: Kovács Nóra, ed. Magyarok a nagyvilágban: Diaszpórakutatás az ezredfordulón [Hungarians in the world: Research on the diaspora at the turn of the millenium]. Budapest: MTA Kisebbségkutató Intézet, 58-73, 2005.
- The sociolinguistic stratification of Hungarian in Subcarpathia. With co-author István Csernicskó. Multilingua, 19(1-2):97-124, 2000.
- The affectedness of the verbal complex in American Hungarian. In: Anna Fenyvesi & Klára Sándor, eds. Language contact and the verbal complex of Dutch and Hungarian: Working papers from the 1st Bilingual Language Use Theme Meeting of the Study Centre on Language Contact, November 11-13, 1999, Szeged, Hungary. With co-editor Klára Sándor. Szeged: JGyTF Press, 2000, 94-107.
- Linguistic minorities in Hungary. In: Linguistic minorities in Central and Eastern Europe, ed. by Christina Bratt Paulston and Donald Peckham. London: Multilingual Matters Ltd., 1998, 135-159.
- Patterns of borrowing and language attrition: American Hungarian in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. In: Approaches to Hungarian 6, ed. by Casper de Groot and István Kenesei. Szeged: JATE Press, 1998, 229-249.
- The case of American Hungarian case: Morphological change in McKeesport, Pennsylvania. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 43 (3-4):381-404, 1995/1996.
- Language contact and language death in an immigrant language: The case of Hungarian. Pitt Working Papers in Linguistics 3, pp. 1-117, Fall 1995.
- Hungarian diglossia in Slovakia: A new linguistic approach. BOOKS: Budapest Review of Books, Summer 1995, pp. 37-39.
- Magyar diglosszia Szlovákiában: Lanstyák István elemzéséről. [Hungarian diglossia in Slovakia: On István Lanstyák's analysis]. BUKSZ, Hungarian language edition of the Budapest Review of Books, Summer 1995, pp. 232-234. Reprinted in: Kontra, Miklós, & Noémi Saly, eds. Nyelvárulás vagy nyelvmentés? Vita a határon túli magyar nyelvhasználatról [Language rescue or language treason? A debate on Hungarian language use outside Hungary's borders]. Budapest: Osiris, 293-298, 1998.
REVIEWS:
- Book notice: Csernicskó, István "A magyar nyelv Ukrajnában (Kárpátalján)" [The Hungarian language in Ukraine (Subcarpathia)], Göncz, Lajos "A magyar nyelv Jugoszláviában (Vajdaságban)" [The Hungarian language in Yugoslavia (Vojvodina)], and Lanstyák, István "A magyar nyelv Szlovákiában" [The Hungarian language in Slovakia], Language, 78:194, 2002.
- Review: Lanstyák & Szabómihály. "Magyar nyelvhasználat – iskola – kétnyelvűség" [Hungarian language use, schools, and bilingualism], Multilingua, 19(1-2):174-177, 2000.
- Book notice: Clyne, ed. "Undoing and redoing corpus planning", Language, 74:398, 1998.
- Book notice: Harlig & Pléh, eds. "When East met West: Sociolinguistics in the former socialist bloc", Language 73:452-453, 1997.
- Review: Zalabai, ed.: "Mit ér a nyelvünk, ha magyar? A 'táblaháború' és a 'névháború' szlovákiai magyar sajtódokumentumaiból 1990-1994" [What is our language worth if it is Hungarian? A selection from the Hungarian press documents in Slovakia concerning the "place-name sign war" and "personal name war", 1990-1994], Kalligram Könyvkiadó, Bratislava 1995. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 43 (3-4):436-437, 1995/1996.
- Review: Miklós Kontra & Tamás Váradi, eds. "Studies in spoken languages: English, German, Finno-Ugric". Eurasian Studies Yearbook 65, pp. 177-178, 1993.
- Book notice: Miklós Kontra, ed., "Tanulmányok a határainkon túli kétnyelvűségről" [Studies on Hungarian bilingualism outside Hungary]. Language 69:209-210, 1993.
PUBLISHED TRANSLATIONS IN LINGUISTICS:
- English translation of the contents of the website of the Gramma Language Office, http://www.gramma.sk/, March-April 2005.
- Ágnes Lerch, The concept of preference and its manifestation in verbal conflict sequences. Hungarian into English translation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 51(1):41-75, 2005.
- Erika Körtvély, Tundra Nenets verb conjugations (PhD dissertation). Hungarian into English translation. In Press.
- Katalin Sipõcz, Morphological and semantic characteristics of color verbs in Finno-Ugric languages. Hungarian into English translation, CIFU-9, Pars VI: 202-208, Tartu 2001.
- Anikó Beregszászi, Language planning issues of Hungarian place-names in Subcarpathia. Hungarian into English translation. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 43 (3-4):373-380, 1996.
- Peter Trudgill, Dialektusok és szociolektusok az új Európában. [Dialect and dialects in the new Europe]. English into Hungarian translation. Kárpátaljai Szemle [Sub-Carpathian Review, Hungarian language cultural journal] Uzhgorod, Ukraine, 3(8-9):28-29, 1995. Also in Valóság [Reality], Hungarian literary and cultural monthly, Budapest, Hungary, 107-110, 1995.
- Róbert Angelusz and Róbert Tardos, Styles of knowledge and interactive habits. Hungarian into English translation with co-translator Don Peckham. International Journal of the Sociology of Language #111, 57-78, 1995.
- Tamás Terestyéni, Styles of knowledge and greeting habits in Hungarian. Hungarian into English translation with co-translator Don Peckham. International Journal of the Sociology of Language #111, 47-56, 1995.
- Robert Di Pietro. Szerepjátékok a nyelvórán: Stratégiai interakció. [Strategic interaction: Learning languages through scenarios, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.] English into Hungarian translation with co-translator Erzsébet Barát. Budapest: Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó Rt. 1994.
TEACHING MATERIALS PRODUCED:
- Beginning Hungarian: Grammar notes and exercises. For use at the Hungarian Studies Program, József Attila University, Szeged, Hungary. 1996.
- Material packet for the Seven Week Program. For use at the English Language Institute, University of Pittsburgh. 1994.
- Listening exercises in Hungarian: Vowel length, consonantal geminates and palatalization (Worksheets and tape). For use in class Phonetics and phonemics, Ling 1578/2578, University of Pittsburgh. 1992.
- Sounds Hungarian: Listening exercises and tape for Hungarian 1. For use at the University of Pittsburgh. 1992.