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This paper aims to analyze the word order of hungarian sentences from the generative viewpoint. Hungarian is rich in the system of morphology, therefore the order of constituents is free from their syntactical functions, any of the constituents has not his own position in sentence. The word order as a syntactical element functions discourse-semantically in Hungarian, which represents non-lexical functional categories, such as topic, focus. In this paper I relay on the Theory of Sentence Analysis of Alberti G.-Medve A.(2005) modified to analyze the hungarian sentence in the Minimalist framework. It results to distinguish various possibilities of the word order of one and the same sentence and to explain the eligibility of the possible word order. In the Xbar theory, the structure of hungarian sentences is consisted of projections of heads, selected from lexicon. The head V compounds V‘ with his complements,among them non-definite NP and preverb AdvP can move to the position of specifier, and definite noun phrase DPs can be projected by Topic, Focus, and Quantifier, which result in the scrambling of the complements. The projections of non-lexical functional categories cause to move the complements to their specifier position. It is related with the double forms of the possessive noun phrases DP as an extended DP. The morphological form of the possessor DP can be projected by functional categories apart from his head to move. That explains the discourse-semantic function of word order in Hungarian.
