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April‐June 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Sz It is a persistent sound, voiceless, dental (or dento‐alveolar).As creator Sz creates persistency, mainly persistent nouns, but some persistent verbs too, e.g.: vad‐ász (ik) = dealing with wilds persistently, vad = wild; markol‐ász (ik) = grab persistently, markol = grab; vakar‐ász (ik) = scratch persistently, vakar = scratch. Above you could see one domain of the creator system of the Hungarian language, the elemental verb creators. They create some kinds of verbs from the original roots, words to which they are added. It has to be mentioned, that the correspondence stands not for hundred percent, but converges to it. There are some exceptions, e.g. because of shift between vocal – non vocal pairs (e.g. g – k), or shift between softened pairs (e.g. l – ly), etc. But it is generally true that the creating function of the given creator remains almost always the same. E.g. T creates always act, a.) influencing activity as verb, b.) the object of an activity c.) the state of being done by an activity or d.) the past tense of an activity which comes from c.). Above we have also shown one domain of our creator system. The other domains of this system are similarly clear‐cut. This description was only a brief introduction into the system of the Hungarian creators. If you wish to read a more detailed description of the system, please see our book on treasures of Hungarian language. The creation process The creation process was described in some detail in the first part of this series when we examined the creation chain and word‐bushes. The creation process starts with a root, which determines the main meaning of the word. The creators give their extra meaning to the root or the word. This meaning surplus is determined by the meaning, function of the creator. The creators could be added to the root in several steps. In every step we can apply several creators; therefore this organic expansion system spreads from the root as a living plant. This plant is called the word‐bush. Creators and creating processes are used very widely in the Hungarian word formation. As we described in the first part of the series, in Hungarian texts the creators and the creating processes hold about 70% part of the agglutinating field (70% creators, 12% markers, 8% connectors and 10% compound words). If we take only the field of new word formation, creation takes about the proportion of 7/8. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 102
April‐June 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 2. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Summary In this essay we discussed the creators, what they are, an dwhat is their function in the Hungarian language. We have seen that there are two types of them, the elemental creators, which are the phonemes themselves and the compound creators which are built from the elemental creators. We have seen that the nature and features of phonemes come through the roles, and functions of creators. Creators and creating processes are the predominant word formation method in the Hungarian language; it reaches the proportion of 7/8. Creators and the phenomena of creation are responsible for the vivid, rich system of words in the Hungarian word‐bushes. References: Czuczor Gergely – Fogarasi János: A magyar nyelv szótára, (The Dictionary of the Hungarian Language), 1862. Molnár Zsolt – Molnárné Czeglédi Cecília: A tiszta magyar nyelv kincseinek megőrzése és tanítása (Preserving and Teaching the Treasures of the Pure Hungarian Language), Püski Kiadó, 2009. (To be continued) _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 103
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