Phonetic Adaptation of Hungarian Loanwords in Romanian

• Authors: Csaba Attila Both
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

In current linguistics, as well as in the fields of contact linguistics and sociolinguistics, the assessment of contact between the different languages used by speakers living in the same geographical/political area receives a pronounced role. These languages inevitably come into contact. The research on language contact between Hungarian and Romanian has a past marked by scholarly works that focus especially on the lexical- semantic level. Because contact between linguistic phenomena occurs at every level of language, it is necessary to focus on the smallest linguistic elements as well. In our work, we analyse a corpus of words borrowed from Hungarian by the Romanian language, focusing on stop sounds. In our paper, we establish the main phonetic transfer modalities, discussing the subject in an international framework.

Keywords

EN

language contact; phonetic adaptation; stop consonants; Hungarian language; Romanian language

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 119-138

Dates

published

2015-12-01

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Csaba Attila Both

• MA-candidate. Hungarian and General Linguistics Department Faculty of Letters Babe§-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

References

• Alexics. György. 1888. Magyar elemek az oláh nyelvben [Hungarian elements in the language of the Vlachs]. Budapest: Homyánszky Viktor Konyvnyomdája.
• Bakos. Ferenc. 1982. A magyar szókeszlet román elemeinek története [The history of Romanian elements of the Hungarian lexicon]. Budapest: Akademiai Konyvkiado.
• Benő, Attila. 2008 Kontaktóldgia. A nyelvi kapcsolatok alapfogahnai [Language contact. Fundamental concepts of language contact]. Cluj-Napoca: Egyetemi Műhely Kiadó, Bolyai Társaság.
• Blédy. Géza. 1942. Influenţa limbii române asupra limbii maghiare [The influence of Romanian on the Hungarian language]. Sibiu.
• Bussman. Hadumod. 1998. Routledge dictionary of language and linguistics. London - New York: Routledge.
• Dimitrescu. Florica (ed.). 1978. Istoria limbii române - Fonetică, Morfosintaxă, Lexic [History of Romanian language - Phoentics. Morphosyntax. Lexicology]. Bucureşti: Editura Didactică şi Pedagogică.
• Grecu. Victor V. 2004. Istoria limbii române [The history of the Romanian language]. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Scientia.
• Hasselblatt. Comelius-de Jonge. Bob-Norde. Muriel. 2010. Introduction. In: Norde. Muriel-de Jonge. Bob-Hasselblatt (eds). Language contact. Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• International Phonetic Association. 1999. Handbook of the International Phonetic Association. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Kiraly. Francisc. 1990. Contacte lingvistice: adaptarea fonetică a împrumuturilor româneşti de origine maghiară [Language contacts: phonetic adaptation of Hungarian borrowings in Romanian]. Timişoara: Editura Facla.
• Kis, Emese. 1975. încadrarea substantivelor de origine maghiară în sistemul morfologic a limbii române [Framing of Hungarian-origin nouns in the morphological system of the Romanian language]. Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
• Márton, Gyula. 1965. Observaţii asupra încadrării vocalelor ă şi î în împrumuturile româneşti ale limbii maghiare [Observations on categorizing the vowels ă and î in the Hungarian-origin borrowings in Romania]. In: Iorgu Iordan (ed.), Omagiu lui Alexandru Rosetti [Homage to Alexandru Rosetti]. Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.
• Rosetti. Alexandru. 1978. Istoria limbii române I. - De la origini pînă la începutul secolului al XVII-lea [The history of Romanian language I - From its origins to the early seventeenth century]. Bucureşti: Editura Ştiinţifică şi Enciclopedică.
• Siemund. Peter. 2008. Language contact. In: Siemund, Peter-Kintana. Noemi (ed.). Language contact and contact languages. Amsterdam - Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Siptár. Peter. 2003. Hangtan [Phonology]- In: É. Kiss-Kiefer- Siptár, Új magyar nyelvtan [New Hungarian grammar]. Budapest: Osiris Kiadô.
• Thomason. Sarah G. 2001. Language contact. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
• Todoran, Romulus. 1965. Despre influenţa maghiară în lexicul graiurilor româneşti din Transilvania [On the influence of Hungarian in the lexicon of Transylvanian Romanian dialects]. In: Iorgu Iordan (ed.), Omagiu lui Alexandru Rosetti [Homage to Alexandru Rosetti]. Bucureşti: Editura Academiei Republicii Socialiste România.

Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/ausp-2015-0059