A chapter from the history of labial harmony in Hungarian: A curious case of alternation and variability
A chapter from the history of labial harmony in Hungarian: A curious case of alternation and variability

Summary/Abstract: This paper looks at the alternations introduced by the Old Hungarian regressive labialization of front vowels through the example of a lexical set, the derivational family based on the stem dics- ‘glory, praise’. This alternation was highly variable, but in a patterned way. All the data found in the Old Hungarian codices have been investigated with the help of the online Old Hungarian Corpus, and the distribution of the relevant forms has been mapped, along with a discussion of a highly interesting exceptional form recurring in several of the source texts.

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