A jelenkori nyelvjárási adatok történeti dialektológiai forrásértéke = The source value of contemporary dialects in historical dialectology

Bába, Barbara (2021) A jelenkori nyelvjárási adatok történeti dialektológiai forrásértéke = The source value of contemporary dialects in historical dialectology. MAGYAR NYELV, 117 (1). pp. 23-37. ISSN 0025-0228

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Abstract

It is one of the basic tenets of historical dialectology that in contemporary dialects the different chronological phases of various phenomena may be found side by side. As a result, it is clear that contemporary dialects may represent an important source for research in historical dialectology. The assessment of contemporary data and the examination of their evidential value, however, entails certain methodological obstacles. Thus, for example, as a result of changes in phonological oppositions or due to settlement history or migration processes, the linguistic phenomena found in contemporary dialects may be used for the localization of certain early dialectal features only with limitations. In many ways, however, today’s dialectal data may provide real guidance for certain observations in historical dialectology. To illustrate this, my paper introduces various phonological phenomena in the study of which contemporary dialectal data may provide an authentic source for historical dialectology. This is followed by the examination of a specific problem, namely the question of why relying on contemporary dialectal data related to the use of the sound ö (rather than the mid ë of other dialects) when establishing the center for the use of ü in the same contexts in the Old Hungarian era might be problematic.

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