ICSH 17: International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian

ICSH 17, the 17th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, is a specialized linguistics conference dedicated to empirical and theoretical research on Hungarian, a morphologically rich and syntactically distinctive Uralic language that has been central to debates in generative linguistics. Topics include Hungarian syntax, morphology, phonology, formal grammar, and the structure of Uralic languages more broadly, examined through frameworks such as Minimalism, LFG, and HPSG, alongside experimental and corpus-based approaches.

The conference attracts formal linguists, typologists, Hungarian language specialists, and general linguists who use Hungarian data to probe universal grammatical principles. Hungarian's agglutinative morphology, verb-second-like word order, and complex verbal agreement system make it a productive testbed for theories of morphosyntax, and ICSH provides the dedicated community where specialists can present detailed descriptive and theoretical work that might not find space at more general linguistics conferences.

Hungarian linguistics syntax morphology phonology formal grammar Uralic languages generative linguistics language structure