Borrowing of Inflectional Morphemes in Language Contact.
Title:
Borrowing of Inflectional Morphemes in Language Contact.
Author:
Gardani, Francesco.
ISBN:
9783653043730
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (121 pages)
Series:
Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes ; v.320
Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes
Contents:
Cover -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- I Contact-induced language change -- 1.1 Theory of language contact -- 1.1.1 Language contact defined -- 1.2 Multilingualism and Sprachbund -- 1.2.1 Multilingualism defined -- 1.2.2 Sprachbund defined -- 1.3 What is contact-induced language change? -- 1.3.1 Contact induced language change defined -- 1.3.2 Contact-induced language change vs. extreme language mix-ture vs. language decay -- 1.4 Survey of the most significant approaches to contact-inducedlanguage change -- II Contact-induced morphological change -- 2.1 Scenario of morphological instability -- 2.1.1 Code switching vs. transfer -- 2.1.2 Externally-motivated morphological change -- 2.1.3 Borrowing vs. interference through shift -- 2.2 Discreteness of systems -- 2.3 Typologically favoured borrowing -- 2.4 Moderate to heavy structural borrowing -- 2.5 Inflection and derivation -- III Aims of this study: problems and predictions -- 3.1 Aims of this study -- 3.2 Focus of interest -- 3.3 Focus questions -- 3.3.1 Factors favouring inflectional borrowing -- 3.3.1.1 Extra-linguistic factors -- 3.3.1.2 Intra-linguistic factors -- 3.4 Predictions -- IV Case studies -- 4.1 Arnhem Land -- 4.1.1 Ritharngu into Ngandi and vice versa -- 4.1.2 Nunggubuyu into Ngandi -- 4.1.3 Nunggubuyu into Warndarang -- 4.2 Turkish into Asia Minor Greek -- 4.3 The Balkans -- 4.3.1 Slavic into Romanian -- 4.3.2 Greek and Albanian into Aromunian -- 4.3.3 Bulgarian into Meglenite Romanian -- 4.3.4 Croatian into Istro-Romanian -- 4.3.5 Turkish into Albanian -- 4.4 Sicilian (Italian) into Maltese -- 4.5 English into Welsh -- 4.6 Persian-Tajik into Arabic -- V Analysis -- 5.1 Survey of the borrowed inflectional morphemes -- 5.2 Analysis of the inflectional borrowings -- 5.2.1 Types and extent -- 5.2.2 Effects.
5.3 Analysis of the extra-linguistic factors and intra-linguistic fac-tors -- 5.3.1 Analysis of the extra-linguistic factors -- 5.3.2 Analysis of the intra-linguistic factors -- 5.3.3 Results of the analysis -- 5.4 Direction of borrowing -- 5.5 Genesis of inflectional borrowing -- 5.6 Definition of inflectional borrowing -- 5.7 Conclusion -- References.
Abstract:
This book is about the borrowing of inflectional morphemes in language contact settings. This phenomenon has at all times seemed to be the most poorly documented aspect of linguistic borrowing. Contact-induced morphological change is not rare in word formation, but exceptional in inflection. This study presents a deductive catalogue of factors conditioning the probability of transfer of inflectional morphology from one language to another and adduces empirical data drawn from Australian languages, Anatolian Greek, the Balkans, Maltese, Welsh, and Arabic. By reference to the most advanced theories of morphology, a thorough analysis of the case studies is provided as well as a definition of inflectional borrowing according to which inflectional borrowing must be distinguished from mere quotation of foreign forms and is acknowledged only when inflectional morphemes are attached to native words of the receiving language.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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