Rob Malouf

@robmalouf.bsky.social

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Linguist @ San Diego State University https://malouf.sdsu.edu

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Timeline (1500–2000) showing the development of Hungarian -hAtnék: from potential conditional verbs (1500), through divergence and reanalysis of hAt-n-ék → hAtnék (1600–1700), to first nominal uses (1800) and increased productivity (2000). Two bars note concurrent obsolescence of complex tenses and the ik paradigm.