Magyar nevek beillesztése a finn ragozási rendszerbe

Abstract

<p>Finnish nouns are divided into inflectional groups. The exact number of<br>groups depends on the source: for example, in Suomen kielen perussanakirja<br>(Basic dictionary of the Finnish language, 1990–1994) nominals have 49 inflection<br>types, but in textbooks the total number of inflection types is usually<br>not defined. Conjugation type refers to a group of words that are inflected in<br>the same way, of which the productive ones also provide a model for the inflection<br>of new words. Differentiating the types of inflections is influenced<br>by the stem type of the word, the stem variation occurring in the inflectional<br>forms, and suffix variants.<br>Loan nouns must be placed in one of the inflectional groups in order to<br>be inflected. A common way to adapt loanwords is the so-called epenthetic i,<br>which is added to the end of the source language word. The same i often also<br>occurs in the inflectional stem of consonant-ending loanwords and, for example,<br>proper nouns. However, the rule is not without exceptions, and in addition,<br>many proper names of foreign origin cause orthographic challenges.<br>The goal of my research is to find out how Hungarian proper names and<br>possible other loanwords are inflected in written Finnish. I use online texts as<br>material sources and especially the online version of Iso suomen kielioppi (Big<br>grammar of Finnish, VISK, 2008) and Kielitoimisto’s (Language office) instruction<br>bank as sources of theory.<br></p>