Constraints on vowel-zero alternations in Hungarian

I analyze a large set of Hungarian nominal stems whose last vowel alternates with zero in certain contexts (Vago (1980), Siptár & Törkenczy (2000)): e.g. bokor [bokor], bokr-ok [bokr-ok]. I argue that the mechanism underlying these alternations is syncope, departing in this from earlier work (Va...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Takács, Dóra Kata
Other Authors: Albright, Adam
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157881