Editorial note

This is the 14th volume of The Even Yearbook that the Department of English Linguistics at Eötvös Loránd University has published in every even-numbered year since its establishment in 1994. This time the COVID crisis has caused some delay, so the volume is not published in one go, some papers are added later.

As always, the volume contains working papers by staff and PhD students of the department. Marcel den Dikken and Teresa O’Neill propose a non-conventional approach to the Agree relation to account for constructions involving the equivalents to ‘how’ and ‘thus’ in the Bantu language Luhya. Márton Jánosy examines the stress patterns of English words that end in the suffix -able, to find out about the factors that influence the placement of stress in these words. Attila Starčević applies a strict CV phonological framework to High Vowel Deletion in Old English hēafod ‘head-nom/acc.pl’. Péter Őri argues that there is no need to posit different laryngeal specifications for voicing and aspirating languages, it is not their representations, but the processes that apply to them that are different. Zoltán G. Kiss and Péter Szigetvári report on an experiment suggesting that there is a statistically significant phonetic difference between the clusters of acting and packed in in English, indicating that the former is [ɡt], the latter [kd]. Nathaniel Torres considers Noun-Numeral Constructions in Finish and attempts to understand the case mismatch between the numeral and noun through contrasts with Slavic and Estonian.

We would like to thank the anonymous reviewers for their work in improving the quality of these papers.

March–June 2021
Mark Newson & Péter Szigetvári