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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