Barbara Egedi

List of John Benjamins publications in which Barbara Egedi is involved.

Articles

Egedi, Barbara 2025 Demonstrative modifiers in Middle Hungarian: A complex picture of renewal From and Towards Demonstratives: Grammaticalization processes and beyond, Orqueda, Veronica and Berta González Saavedra (eds.), pp. 292–314 | Article

This paper describes and analyzes the renewal of the demonstrative system in Hungarian, concentrating on the competing strategies of the Middle Hungarian period. After the definite article had grammaticalized in Hungarian, the demonstrative system renewed via two different strategies:… read more

Egedi, Barbara 2013 Grammatical encoding of referentiality in the history of Hungarian Synchrony and Diachrony: A dynamic interface, Giacalone Ramat, Anna, Caterina Mauri and Piera Molinelli (eds.), pp. 367–390 | Article

The paper demonstrates that the Old Hungarian article, although homophonous with the distal demonstrative it developed from, is a fully grammaticalized element encoding definiteness on a syntactic level. Questioning its status as a true article is the consequence of the fact that it had a more… read more