After the liberation of Hungarian linguistics in the 19th century from the restrictive descriptive paradigm of ancient and mediaeval times, dogmatizing the properties of the Latin language as omni-valid, Hungarian grammarians seem to have gone on to adopt another doctrine that obscured certain essential properties of the semantic, morpho-syntactic and morphological structure of the Hungarian language. The case of the controversial so-called endingless accusative (cf. Várom a fiam 'I am expecting my son') reveals their methodological inclinations, which evidently favored an analogical, formal, paradigmatic and (implicitly) diachronizing approach at the expense of a balanced -and in the view of the author of this article more suitable -approach which would also take account of anomalous, semantic, syntagmatic and purely synchronic phenomena.