Selected Publications reviewed papers Gervain, Judit and Gabor Zemplen. 2005. "Focus-raising: A paradigmatic example of the treatment of syntactic variation". In: Leonie Cornips and Karen P. Corrigan (eds.): Syntax and Variation: Reconciling the Biological and the Social. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 123-145. Gervain, J. 2005. Resumption and Movement in Hungarian Focus-Raising Constructions. In: Kenesei, I., Siptár, P., Piñón, C. (eds.): Approaches to Hungarian 9. Budapest:Akadémiai Kiadó. Gervain, Judit. 2004. "The Syntax and the Semantics of the Resumptive Dependency in Hungarian Focus-raising Constructions". In Benjamin Shaer, Werner Frey, Claudia Maienborn (eds.): Proceedings of the Dislocated Elements Workshop (ZAS Berlin, November 2003), ZAS Papers in Linguistics, 35:1, 111-131. Gervain, J. and Pléh, Cs. 2004. Igevonzatok a magyar mondatmegértésben [Verbal complements in Hungrian sentence processing]. In: Pléh, Cs. and Gervain, J. (ed.). to appear. Láthatatlan megismerés [Invisible science - papers in cognitive science from the students of the Invisible College], Budapest: Osiris. Gervain, J. 2003. Where is the Lexicon?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 26(6): 678-679. Gervain, J. 2003. Syntactic microvariation and methodology: Problems and Perspectives. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 50 (3-4): 405-434. Gervain, J. 2002. Az olvasás gyönyöre? [The pleasure of reading? A state of the art report on dyslexia research]. Pszichológiai Szemle [The Hungarian Review of Psychology], 57:3, 435-464. Gervain, J. 2001. Adaptáció, exaptáció vagy csoda? [Adaptation, exaptation or miracle?] In: Kampis, Gy and Ropolyi, L. (eds.): Evolúció és megismerés [Evolution and Cognition]. Budapest: Typotex, 123-132. Gervain, J. 2001. When Chomsky meets Searle In: Kertész, A. (ed.): The pragmatics of scientific discourse, Frankfurt-am-Main: Lang Verlag, 113-133. other papers Zemplén, G. and Gervain, J. forthcoming. Az elefántcsonttorony átépítése: a normativitás mint a generatív nyelvészet módszertani és episztemológiai problémája [Rebuilding the ivory tower: normativity as a
methodological and epistemological problem in generative grammar]. In: Kelemen, J. (ed.): Proceedings of the Conference Norma, kijelentés, cselekvés [Norm, propositions, acts: annual conference of the Hungarian Philosophical Association]. Gervain, J. 2002. Focus-Raising in Hungarian: Resumption and Movement. In Alberti, G., Balogh, K., Dekker, P. (eds.): Proceedings of the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language. Pécs. Gervain, J. 1999. Minimalista-e a nyelv? [Is language minimalist?]. Tudomány és Lélek, 2:4. talks Gervain, J. 2004. Learning the discrimination and the order of morphemes: A cross-linguistic comparison. Talk presented at the Symbols and Connections Workshop, 29th-31st October 2004, Venice (San Servolo), Italy Gervain, J. 2003. Resumptive pronouns: traces or variables? Talk presented at the ESSLLI 03 Student Session, 18th- 29th August 2003, Vienna, Austria. Gervain, J. 2003. Language Variation and Linguistic Methodology. Talk presented at the 2nd International Conference on Language Variation, 12th-14th June, 2003, Uppsala, Sweden. Gervain, J. 2003. Nyelvevolúció újra: Chomsky megtért? [Language evolution revisited: Chomsky s conversion?]. Talk presented at the XI. Makog [11th Annual Meeting of the Hungarian Cognitive Science Society], 30th January-1st February, 2003, Pécs, Hungary. Gervain, J. and Zemplén, G. 2002. Az elefántcsonttorony átépítése? Normativitás a generatív nyelvészetben [Rebuilding the ivory tower: normativity in generative grammar]. Talk presented at Norma, kijelentés, cselekvés [Norms, propositions, acts], the annual conference of the Hungarian Philosophical Association, 26th-28th October 2002, Budapest, Hungary. Gervain, J. 2002. Resumption and Movement in Hungarian Focus-raising Constructions. Talk presented at the 6th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian, 12th-13th September 2002, Düsseldorf, Germany. Gervain, J.2002. Focus-Raising in Hungarian: Resumption and Movement. Talk presented at the Seventh Symposium on Logic and Language, 26th-29th August 2002, Pécs, Hungary. Gervain, J. 2001. A képességzavarok és részképességzavarok élettani alapjai: a diszlexia esete [The biological bases of specific cognitive deficits: the case of dyslexia] Talk presented as part of an advanced specialization course for junior
high school and high school teachers, 7th November 2001, Budapest, Hungary Gervain, J. 2001. Adaptáció, exaptáció vagy csoda? [Adaptation, exaptation or miracle?] Talk presented at the 9th Annual Conference of the Hungarian Cognitive Science Society, 1st-3rd February 2001, Visegrád, Hungary Gervain, J. 2000. Vonzatelvásárok a magyar mondatmegértésben [Expectations on complementaton in Hungarian sentence processing]. Poster presented at Pszichológia 2000 (Annual Conference of the Psychological Association), Budapest, 31st May-2nd June, 2000. book reviews Gervain, J. 2002. Hol tart ma a generatív nyelvészet? [Generative linguistics: a state of the art report book review on Noam Chomsky. 2000. New Horizons in the Study of Language and Mind. Cambridge: CUP.]. Pszichológiai Szemle [The Hungarian Review of Psychology], 57:3, 509-512. Gervain, J. 2002. Madár-madarak, tanár-tanarak? [book review on Pléh, Cs. and Lukács, Á. 2001. A magyar morfológia pszicholingvisztikája. Budapest: Osiris. Pszichológiai Szemle [The Hungarian Review of Psychology], 57:2, 371-388. Gervain, J. 2002. book review on Pléh, Cs et al. (eds.): Lélek és evolúció [Mind and evolution]. Budapest: Osiris, 2001. Magyar Tudomány [Journal of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences], 1, 126-127. Gervain, J. 2001. A szándék a fontos [It is intention that matters book review on Michael Tomasello.1999. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP]. Pszichológiai Szemle LVI: 2, 335-340. Gervain, J.2001. book review on Hommage à Iván Fónagy. (special issue of Journal of French Studies. 1999. Eötvös Lóránd University, Budapest) Modern Nyelvoktatás 7: 2-3, 98-101. Gervain, J. 2000. Ösztön-e a nyelv? [Is language really an instinct? book review on the Hungarian translation of Steven Pinker's Language Instinct]. Magyar Tudomány. 2000: 2. Gervain, J. 2000. book review on A magyar nyelv az informatika korában ([Hungarian in the age of informatics strategic research programs of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences] Glatz, F. (ed.). 1999. Magyar Tudományos Akadémia: Budapest.) Modern Nyelvoktatás 6: 2-3, 95-96.
Editing co-editor to Pléh Cs. and Gervain J. (ed.). forthcoming. Láthatatlan nyelv [Invisible language - papers in linguistics and the psychology of language from students and tutors of the Invisible College], Budapest: Gondolat. co-editor to Pléh Cs. and Gervain J. (ed.). 2004. Láthatatlan megismerés [Invisible cognition - papers in cognitive science from students and tutors of the Invisible College], Budapest: Gondolat. assistant editor to Kenesei, I. and R. M. Harnish (eds.). 2001. Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse. Festschrift for Ferenc Kiefer. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. proof-reader to Szécsényi T. (ed.). 2000. LingDok 1. Nyelvészdoktoranduszok Dolgozatai [Papers from the 1st LingDok, National Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics]. Szeged: JATEPress. proof-reader and technical editor to Kenesei, I. (ed.). 1999. Crossing Boundaries. Advances in the Theory of Central and Eastern European Languages. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. assistant editor, linguistic consultant and proof-reader to Pálfi Gy. et al. (eds.). 1998. Tuberculosis: Past and Present [Trilingual proceedings from ICEPID 2, International Conference on Epidemic and Infectious Diseases]. Szeged Budapest: Tubekulózis Alapítvány and Golden Book. Translations Mehler, Jacques, Dupoux, Emmanuel, Gervain Judit. forthcoming. Ember születik [working title]. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. (original: Jacques Mehler and Emmanuel Dupoux. 1990. Naître humain. Paris: Odile Jacob.) Canguilhem, Georges. forthcoming. A normális és a kóros [working title]. Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó. (original: Georges Canguilhem. 1966. Le normal et le pathologique, Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.) Piaget, Jean. 2005. Szociológiai tanulmányok. Budapest: Osiris. (original: Jean Piaget. 1965. Ecrits sociologiques. Droz: Geneva.) Tomasello, M. 2002. Az emberi gondolkodás kulturális gyökerei. Budapest: Osiris. (original: Michael Tomasello. 1999. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP.)
Harnad, S. 2002. Az elme magyarázata: kemény dió. In Vizi E., Sz. et al. (eds.). Agy és tudat [Brain and Consciousness]. Budapest: Books-in-Press. Dutour, O. et al. 2002. French-English Bilingual Abstract Book of ICEPID 4 (International Conference on Epidemic and Infectious Diseases). Marseille: Presse de l Université de la Méditerranée. Changeux, J.-P.2000. Agyunk által világosan. Homo neuronalis. Budapest: Typotex. (original: Changeux, J.-P. 1984. L'homme neuronal. Paris: Fayard.)