Diminutives: Exceptions to Harmonic Uniformity

Front-back harmony in Hungarian is governed by the root of words: it disregards suffixes in most cases. That is, a back-vowelled root (B) followed by any number of neutral-vowelled suffixes (N) will take a back-vowelled suffix (B+N+N+B), but a root with a back vowel followed by several neutral vowel...

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Autores principales:	Péter Rebrus, Péter Szigetvári
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Publicado:	Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 2016
Materias:	morphology vowel harmony Hungarian diminutives truncation Philology. Linguistics P1-1091
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ccaf88a07d254ce29b4c17f9ee7ee71a2021-11-27T10:46:50ZDiminutives: Exceptions to Harmonic Uniformity10.5565/rev/catjl.1861695-68852014-9719https://doaj.org/article/ccaf88a07d254ce29b4c17f9ee7ee71a2016-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/catJL/article/view/186https://doaj.org/toc/1695-6885https://doaj.org/toc/2014-9719Front-back harmony in Hungarian is governed by the root of words: it disregards suffixes in most cases. That is, a back-vowelled root (B) followed by any number of neutral-vowelled suffixes (N) will take a back-vowelled suffix (B+N+N+B), but a root with a back vowel followed by several neutral vowels is possibly followed by a front-vowelled suffix (F): BNN+F/B. We call this Harmonic Uniformity. This is respected even in truncated stems: NB→N<B>+N+B, although NN stems practically never take a back suffix (NN+F). Diminutive forms are the only exceptions to this pattern. We claim that this is so, because diminutive forms are much more loosely related to their “base” than is the case with any other types of suffixation.Péter RebrusPéter SzigetváriUniversitat Autònoma de Barcelonaarticlemorphologyvowel harmonyHungariandiminutivestruncationPhilology. LinguisticsP1-1091CAENCatalan Journal of Linguistics, Vol 15 (2016)
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description	Front-back harmony in Hungarian is governed by the root of words: it disregards suffixes in most cases. That is, a back-vowelled root (B) followed by any number of neutral-vowelled suffixes (N) will take a back-vowelled suffix (B+N+N+B), but a root with a back vowel followed by several neutral vowels is possibly followed by a front-vowelled suffix (F): BNN+F/B. We call this Harmonic Uniformity. This is respected even in truncated stems: NB→N<B>+N+B, although NN stems practically never take a back suffix (NN+F). Diminutive forms are the only exceptions to this pattern. We claim that this is so, because diminutive forms are much more loosely related to their “base” than is the case with any other types of suffixation.
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Diminutives: Exceptions to Harmonic Uniformity

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