The Loss of the Definite Article and the Illative Case Suffix in a Novel Nominal Construction in Hungarian

Abstract

In the colloquial Hungarian language, there is an emerging pattern including the loss of the illative case together with the definite article. In my thesis, I provide a literature review of all the related grammatical features of Hungarian, including the Hungarian DP and the Hungarian case system presenting the relevant case suffix endings and verbal particle constructions. Then, I introduce the emerging linguistic construction, and I explain the methodology of the experiment. In the following section, I present the findings of the research concerning several aspects of the novel nominal structure. In the conclusion section, I discuss the constraints of the construction and further aspects of the emerging pattern that could also be examined.