The Even Yearbook 4 (2000)
#37
volume: 4 (2000)
pages: 107–115
author: Péter Siptár
title: Degemination in Hungarian
abstract: The traditional insight concerning Hungarian degemination is that geminates do not occur in this language (i) word initially, or (ii) flanked by another consonant on either side. In other words, the occurrence of geminates is only possible (i) intervocalically (e.g., állat ‘animal’, áll-ok ‘I stand’, áll Attila ‘Attila stands’) and (ii) utterance finally (i.e., before a pause) if preceded by a vowel (e.g., áll ‘stand’). The latter type is degeminated, however, if a consonant follows, irrespective of whether that consonant comes from synthetic (or Level I) suffixation (e.g., áll-t ‘he/she stood’, áll-tam ‘I stood’), analytic (or Level II) suffixation (e.g., áll-hat ‘may stand’), compounding (áll-kapocs ‘jawbone’) or even from a different word (áll Tamás ‘Tom stands’). However, this traditional view is oversimplified and has to be revised, to be at least observationally adequate, in various ways. This revision (as well as an analysis of the issue of degemination) is the topic of the present paper.
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