László Antal

László Antal
László Antal
Born	25 June 1930; Szob, Hungary
Died	January 1993 (aged 62); Washington
Nationality	Hungarian
Citizenship	Hungary
Alma mater	Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE)
Known for	Structural linguistics
	Scientific career
Fields	Linguistics; Structural linguistics
Institutions	Department of General Linguistics, ELTE, Budapest
Influences	Lajos Tamás
Influenced	László Kálmán

László Antal (25 June 1930 – January 1993[1]) 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

Antal was born in Szob, Hungary. 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 in Washington, D.C., of a heart attack, in 1993. He spoke several languages, such as English, German, Russian, French, Albanian, Arabic, and Indonesian, fluently.

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References

"László Antal, Dr" (in Hungarian). Geni. Retrieved 2016-08-19.

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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[1] "László Antal, Dr" (in Hungarian). Geni. Retrieved 2016-08-19.