THE HETEROGENEOUS PLURAL

• Authors: Szolcsanyi Akos
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper discusses the use and meaning of the Hungarian morpheme -ek 'and company'. Its previous classifications are introduced, with a special comparison with the anaphoric possessive marker -e 'that of, belonging to'. It is proposed that -ek does not merely function the way its name suggests but is used for other purposes, as well. The paper discusses the items provided by English and Spanish for the function of -ek, as well as the use of the Hungarian morpheme in translations from those languages. Finally, miscellaneous examples of grammatical oddities and problems with respect to pluralisation are given, irrespective of the actual linguistic sign used

Keywords

EN

GRAMMAR; HETEROGENEOUS PLURAL; MORPHEME; MORPHOLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 464-470
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Szolcsanyi Akos

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090432