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Volume 66: Issue 4
Frequency and prototypicality determine variation in the Hungarian verbal 1 SG.INDEF
Author:
Péter Rácz Central European University

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Pages:
601–620
Online Publication Date:
Dec 2019
Publication Date:
01 Dec 2019
Article Category:
Research Article
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1556/2062.2019.66.4.5
Keywords:
corpus linguistics; morphology; language variation and change; Hungarian
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Abstract

I provide a synchronic account of the variation between the marked and unmarked forms of the 1SG.INDEF of Hungarian (-ik) verbs; verbs that end in (-ik) in the 3SG.INDEF. I use a generalised mixed-effects regression analysis to explore how these forms vary in an extensive sample of the language, the Hungarian Webcorpus. I find that verbs' preference for the marked/unmarked form is determined by their lemma frequency and their prototypicality as members of the (-ik) class. These results are consistent with a morphological levelling account of variation in Hungarian verbal morphology, in which verbs migrate away from the minority (-ik) class and into the majority regular class. This suggests a picture of variation in Hungarian verbs that is shaped by lexical organisation, morphophonology, and social dynamics.

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