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\itemau{Sadrzadeh, Mehrnoosh}
\itemti{An adventure into Hungarian word order with cyclic pregroups.}
\itemso{Hart, Bradd (ed.) et al., Models, logics, and higher-dimensional categories: A tribute to the work of Mih\'aly Makkai. Proceedings of a conference, CRM, Montr\'eal, Canada, June 18--20, 2009. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (ISBN 978-0-8218-7281-9/pbk). CRM Proceedings and Lecture Notes 53, 263-275 (2011).}
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Pregroups are mathematical structures developed by {\it J. Lambek} in [Grammars 4, No. 1, 21--39 (2001; Zbl 1007.03031); Math. Intell. 28, No. 2, 41--48 (2006; Zbl 1167.68453)] and so on. They formalize regularities of numbers and have applications to linguistics. In their categorical version, they are compact closed categories and have been applied to physics. In the linguistic world, pregroups have earned rapid success in describing syntax of natural languages including English, French, Italian, Japanese, Arabic and Persian, though Hungarian seems to have failed to receive such a treatment. The present paper offers a touristic encounter with a small fragment of its syntax.
\itemrv{Hirokazu Nishimura (Tsukuba)}
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\itemut{mathematical linguistics; pregroups; Hungarian; syntax; cyclicity}
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