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The Uralic languages of Russia are severely endangered; the Ugric sister languages of Hungarian are moribund. The disappearance of these languages before their grammars are thoroughly analyzed and documented would be an irreparable loss for grammatical theory because they abound in phenomena which are either not known or only partially understood by syntactic theory. To mention a few examples: the partial fusion of grammatial functions and discourse roles; differential verb-object agreement and object marking determined by the discourse role of the object and restricted by an Inverse Topicality Constraint; passive and secundative constructions affecting oblique internal arguments; oblique subjects in Khanty; Samoyedic noun phrases marked for tense and mood; 16 different evidential moods in Nenets; 3rd person possessive agreement grammaticalized into a definiteness marker, etc. Without understanding these phenomena, linguistic theory cannot account for the full potential of human linguistic capacity. Another reason why studying the syntaxes of these languages is a pressing necessity is that without them, the history of Hungarian cannot be learned. Up until recently, comparative linguistics focussed on the comparison and reconstruction of  lexemes and morphemes. Continuing the work we started in an 18-month pilot project (OTKA 118079: Languages under the Influence. Uralic syntax changing in an asymmetrical contact situation), we extend the comparative method to syntactic structures, and based on the shared and distinct syntactic properties of Uralic languages, we reconstruct earlier stages of Hungarian syntax.