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László Antal
Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science, Professor of Linguistics

László Antal

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Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science, Professor of Linguistics
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Place of birth
Szob, Hungary
Place of death
Washington, D.C., USA
Age
62 years
Residence
Zebegény, Hungary
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Biography

László Antal (25 June 1930 in Szob, Hungary – January 1993 inWashington,) was a Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science (1981), and Professor of Linguistics. He was considered the sole representative of structural linguistics in America in Hungary. He adapted American structuralism to the Hungarian language. He was a lone wolf in Hungarian linguistics.

Life

In 1962 he was awarded a Ford Scholarship to the United States in the academic years of 1964-1965. He was a Visiting Professor in Berlin between 1981 & 1986. He left Hungary first for Germany then for the United States in 1985 when he was appointed to the Head of the General Linguistics Department in ELTE in Budapest. He settled in Manassas, Virginia. He was a Professor in the Foreign Service Institute and an advisor at the Jamestown Foundation. He died of a heart attack in 1993. He spoke several languages, such as English, German, Russian, French, Albanian, Arabic, and Indonesian, fluently.

Selected works

This bibliography contains only the works that were published in English.

Books

  • Antal, László 1963: Questions of Meaning, Mouton, The Hague.
  • Antal, László 1964: Content, Meaning, and Understanding, Mouton. The Hague.

Papers

  • Antal, László 1961: Sign, Meaning, Context, Lingua 10, 211-9.
  • Antal, László 1963: A new type of dictionary, Linguistics 1, 75-84.
  • Antal, László (1988). "Rules, Analogies, Categories". Word. 1988 (39): 21–27. doi:10.1080/00437956.1988.11435780.
  • Antal, László. "Langue And Parole or Only Parole?". Historiographia Linguistica. 1990 (17): 357–367. Retrieved 2016-08-19.
  • Antal, László (1991). "Multiple Syntactic Relations: a Tentative Note". Word. 1991 (42): 89–94. doi:10.1080/00437956.1991.11435833.
  • Antal, László 1992: Another calamity of quotas. N.h. [New York], é.n.
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