Miklós Törkenczy
List of John Benjamins publications in which Miklós Törkenczy is involved.
2025 Linking vowels define paradigm classes in Hungarian Approaches to Hungarian 19, Onea, Edgar and Balázs Surányi (eds.), pp. 115–143 | Article
In both nominal and verbal paradigms of Hungarian a vowel may occur between the stem and the suffix. The presence and the quality of this vowel is determined by a wide array of phonological, morphological, lexical, even syntactic and semantic factors. In this paper we argue that this vowel… read more
2020 Testing variability effects in Hungarian vowel harmony Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 16: Papers from the 2017 Budapest Conference, Hegedűs, Veronika and Irene Vogel (eds.), pp. 97–114 | Chapter
Hungarian backness harmony shows various degrees of transparency and variation, but the empirical testing of these variability effects in corpora is problematic because of data sparseness. We have created an experiment using harmonically mixed stems and four different harmonic suffixes, and… read more
2017 Chapter 5. Co-patterns, subpatterns and conflicting generalizations in Hungarian vowel harmony Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 15: Papers from the 2015 Leiden Conference, Hulst, Harry van der and Anikó Lipták (eds.), pp. 135–156 | Chapter
In this paper we examine coexisting patterns of variation in Hungarian front/back harmony conditioned by prosodic structure (the Polysyllabic Split), locality (the Count Effect), morphological structure/uniformity (Harmonic Uniformity) and the paradigmatic property of whether a suffix is… read more
2017 Asymmetric variation Sonic Signatures: Studies dedicated to John Harris, Lindsey, Geoff and Andrew Nevins (eds.), pp. 163–188 | Chapter
The free combination of independent phonological events is (implicitly) assumed by and built into the mechanisms of phonological models. Phonological variation occurring in independent dimensions applies orthogonally. In the possessive paradigms of Hungarian nouns this fails to apply. Suffixes may… read more
2013 Harmony that cannot be represented Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 13: Papers from the 2011 Lund conference, Brandtler, Johan, Valéria Molnár and Christer Platzack (eds.), pp. 229–252 | Article
2012 Possible and impossible variation in Hungarian Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 23–50 | Article
The paper discusses variation in the occurrence and quality of ‘linking vowels’ in Hungarian. While linking vowels are discussed in the traditional and/or generative literature, implicitly or explicitly, this variation is considered or predicted to be accidental by these analyses. In a detailed… read more
2011 Paradigmatic variation in Hungarian Approaches to Hungarian: Volume 12: Papers from the 2009 Debrecen Conference, Laczkó, Tibor and Catherine O. Ringen (eds.), pp. 135–162 | Article
The main claim of this paper is that the locus of variation within a paradigm is not accidental. It occurs at unstable points of the paradigm where morphophonological patterns are in conflict. The paper discusses in detail two areas of variation in the Hungarian verbal paradigm: variation in some… read more