The behaviour of the GPM morpheme in the language use of Hungarian PC gamers
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.2.192Keywords:
GPM morpheme, Optimality Theory, sibilants, estrangement methodAbstract
This paper examines nouns of foreign origin with sibilants at the end and the way they behave when Hungarian native speakers inflect them with the General Possession Marker (GPM) morpheme. Unlike in the case of other sibilant-final Hungarian nouns (or what speakers identify as Hungarian nouns), some Hungarian native speakers (one of whose hobbies is to play video games in English) add a j-initial allomorph of the GPM morpheme to these nouns which is a highly unexpected solution. The analysis presented here uses the framework of Optimality Theory. Whenever Hungarian native speakers choose to apply a kind of estrangement method in forms involving a sibilant-final noun and the GPM morpheme, they rank the constraint Faith‑IO(syl) above the constraint *Sj, so the winner will be the candidate in which a j-initial allomorph of the GPM morpheme occurs; otherwise, they rank *Sj above aith‑IO(syl) and the winner will be the candidate with an allomorph of the GPM morpheme without j.
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