László Antal

László Antal (Szob, Hungary, 25 June 1930 – USA/Germany January 1993 ) was a Hungarian linguist, structuralist, Doctor of Science (1981), Professor of Linguistics. He was considered as the sole representative of structural linguistics in America in Hungary. He adapted Amarican structuralism to Hungarian language. He was a "Lone Wolf" in Hungarian linguistics.

Life

In 1962 he rewarded 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 USA in 1985 when he was just appointed to the Head of General Linguistics Department in ELTE in Budapest. He settled in Manassas, Virginia. He was a Professor in the Foreign Service Institute. He was an advisor at the Jamestown Foundation. He died of heart attack in 1993. He spoke several languages such as English, German, Russian, French, Albanian, Arabic, Indonesian fluently.

elected 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 1991: Multiple Syntactic Relations: a Tentative Note, "Word" 42, 89-94.
*Antal, László 1992: Another calamity of quotas. N.h. [New York] , é.n.