Márton András Baló
List of John Benjamins publications in which Márton András Baló is involved.
Articles
2023 Gender reduction in contact: The case of Romani in nineteenth-century Hungary Diachronica 40:5, pp. 578–608 | Article
The present paper investigates the reduction of gender assignment and agreement in a nineteenth-century Romani variety in contact with genderless Hungarian. This reduction took place within two generations of native speakers. We compare the geographical and sociolinguistic situation with the… read more
2012 Arguments from Lovari loan-verb adaptation for an analogy-based analysis of verbal systems Current Issues in Morphological Theory: (Ir)regularity, analogy and frequency, Kiefer, Ferenc †, Mária Ladányi and Péter Siptár (eds.), pp. 3–22 | Article
This paper attempts to provide evidence that analogy-based approaches make language change, as well as unstable and variegated forms and word classes, easier to understand and grasp than they would be in a traditional synchronic framework or through a diachronic analysis. The example cited is taken… read more