The study examines verbal prefixes in the Slovene dialect of Felsõszölnök (Gornji Senik). The regional dialect of the Mura region and its variant in Felsõszölnök was strongly connected with Hungarian and German, and this connection can be seen in its lexical system and its syntax. The Slavic verbal prefixes are much older than the earliest Hungarian prefixes, as the relation of the prefix and the verb (prefix+verb) became fixed early on and has not changed since. However, in the Slovene dialect of the Mura region and in the regional dialect variant in Felsõszölnök, a strong Hungarian effect can be detected regarding the place, the role and the meaning of the prefixes. A distinctive feature of the dialect variant is the doubling of prefixes, which can be found in German, but not in standard Hungarian or Slovene.
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