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In:Structuring Variation in Romance Linguistics and Beyond: In honour of Leonardo M. Savoia
Edited by Mirko Grimaldi, Rosangela Lai, Ludovico Franco and Benedetta Baldi
[Linguistik Aktuell/Linguistics Today 252] 2018
► pp. 223–239

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Chapter 15
Overabundance in Hungarian accusative pronouns

 | University of L'Aquila
 | University of L'Aquila
Published online: 19 December 2018
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Overabundance is defined as the situation in which more than one inflected form is available to realize a single cell of an inflectional paradigm (Thornton 2011, 2012). Hungarian pronominal paradigms host several cases of overabundance in the accusative forms. Quantitative data from both diachronic and synchronic corpora are presented, showing that 1/2/3sg.acc forms have an unbalanced distribution while 1pl.acc and 2pl.acc forms have a very balanced distribution, close to a 1:1 ratio between the two competing forms. One of the factors mentioned in the literature as favoring one of the two 1pl.acc and 2pl.acc forms, i.e., usage in emphatic / focus position, is illustrated and briefly discussed on the basis of corpus data.
Article outline
  • 1.Overabundance
  • 2.Hungarian nominal and pronominal inflection: An overview
  • 3.Overabundance in Hungarian personal pronouns
    • 3.1Unbalanced overabundance in 1/2/3sg.acc forms
    • 3.2Balanced overabundance in 1pl.acc and 2pl.acc forms
  • 4.Are there differences in the usage of the two competing forms?
    • 4.1Emphatic vs. non-emphatic
  • 5.Discussion and concluding remarks
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
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