New results in the historical analysis of the word való
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2022.3.301Keywords:
history of parts of speech, participle, auxiliary participle, modality, Middle Hungarian, corpus linguisticsAbstract
The authors of this paper make an attempt to categorise and separate the various functions of the word való, a derived non-finite form of the Hungarian verb of existence van. Our main point of view was that of linguistic history. Hence, we studied the diverse occurrences of the word való in an 18th-century corpus that includes the material used in this research: Kelemen Mikes’s Letters from Turkey. In eighteenth-century Hungarian, the word való showed a wider part-of-speech diversity than it does in the current state of the language. While previous studies mostly focused on the syntactic role of való, our categorisation was based on function; thereby we managed to classify the data containing the word való by the differences in usage.
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