TY  - BOOK
AU  - Francesco Gardani
PY  - 2014
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653043730
TI  - Borrowing of Inflectional Morphemes in Language Contact
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-04373-0
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1053640
N2  - 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.
KW  - Morpheme, Inflection, Language Contact, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics
LA  - English
ER  -