Language variativity and contact variants in the Hungarian and international literature
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Philology
About author:
G. Lőrincz J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia, [email protected]
J. Lőrincz J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia, [email protected]
T. Török J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: since most linguistic research involving variants focuses on the lexeme level, the most accurate definition in the literature with respect to variants in this linguistic plane can be found. Lexical variants are language units that are similar in form (they show only partial, phonetic differences in form that do not constitute a morpheme-level deviation), and have completely identical referential (denotative) lexical and grammatical meanings, but their pragmatic meanings are different.
Objective: in the present study the issue of language variativity and the topic of contact variants are addressed.
Research materials: published monographs, articles and dictionaries in Hungarian, Russian and German languages with particular regard to the 2nd, revised edition of The Concise Dictionary of Hungarian Language and the Dictionary of Foreign Words of Osiris Publisher.
Results and novelty of the research: the terminology and the types of variativity based on the international – mainly Hungarian, Russian and German – literature are examined. Based on the contrastive approach, the Russian and German types are also compared to Hungarian examples. The novelty of the research is the systematization and the typology of so-called contact variants (formal loanwords, variants of direct loanwords, hypercorrect forms, back-borrowed lexemes), which arose in the correlation of two languages (Slovak-Hungarian, Romanian-Hungarian).
Key words: variability, variativity, language variants, the tipology of variants, contact variants, formal loanwords, variants of direct loanwords, hypercorrect forms, back-borrowed lexemes.
For citation: Lőrincz G., Lőrincz J., Török T. Language variativity and contact variants in the Hungarian and international literature // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (2): 292–300.
J. Lőrincz J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia, [email protected]
T. Török J. Selye University, Komárno, Slovakia, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: since most linguistic research involving variants focuses on the lexeme level, the most accurate definition in the literature with respect to variants in this linguistic plane can be found. Lexical variants are language units that are similar in form (they show only partial, phonetic differences in form that do not constitute a morpheme-level deviation), and have completely identical referential (denotative) lexical and grammatical meanings, but their pragmatic meanings are different.
Objective: in the present study the issue of language variativity and the topic of contact variants are addressed.
Research materials: published monographs, articles and dictionaries in Hungarian, Russian and German languages with particular regard to the 2nd, revised edition of The Concise Dictionary of Hungarian Language and the Dictionary of Foreign Words of Osiris Publisher.
Results and novelty of the research: the terminology and the types of variativity based on the international – mainly Hungarian, Russian and German – literature are examined. Based on the contrastive approach, the Russian and German types are also compared to Hungarian examples. The novelty of the research is the systematization and the typology of so-called contact variants (formal loanwords, variants of direct loanwords, hypercorrect forms, back-borrowed lexemes), which arose in the correlation of two languages (Slovak-Hungarian, Romanian-Hungarian).
Key words: variability, variativity, language variants, the tipology of variants, contact variants, formal loanwords, variants of direct loanwords, hypercorrect forms, back-borrowed lexemes.
For citation: Lőrincz G., Lőrincz J., Török T. Language variativity and contact variants in the Hungarian and international literature // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2021; 11 (2): 292–300.
