Verbs with the -n suffix in the third person singular in a Middle Hungarian corpus
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2025.1.14Keywords:
verbs with the -n suffix in the third person singular, competition between forms with and without the suffix, Corpus of Middle Hungarian Memoirs and Drama, comparison of registers, frequency surveyAbstract
The study focuses on a specific verb group which is small in terms of the number of its members, but important in its role in language use. What connects the members of this group is that, in the indicative mood present tense third person singular, they have both a form without a suffix and a form with an -n suffix. This verb group has received less attention in the history of linguistics than its significance warrants. The analysis investigates this verb group using the Middle Hungarian Corpus of Memoirs and Drama built at the HUN-REN Research Centre for Linguistics. It pays great attention to differences in registers. Although, in terms of the overall picture of registers, the behaviour of forms with and without the suffix does not differ significantly, a detailed examination of the corpus data allows for numerous observations that provide new and progressive insights into the study of the history of this verb group.
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