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A Typology of Verbal Borrowings (Hardcover)
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A Typology of Verbal Borrowings (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]
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The questions as to why most languages appear to have more trouble
borrowing verbs than nouns, and as to the possible mechanisms and
paths by which verbs can be borrowed or the obstacles for verb
borrowing, have been a topic of interest since the late 19th
century. However, no truly substantial typological research had
been undertaken in this field before the present study. The present
work is the first in-depth cross-linguistic study on loan verbs and
the morphological, syntactic and sociolinguistic aspects of loan
verb accommodation. It applies current methodologies on database
management, quantitative analysis and typological conventions and
it is based on a broad global sample of data from over 400
languages and the typological data from the World Atlas of Language
Structures (WALS). One major result of the present study is the
falsification, on empirical grounds, of long-standing claims that
verbs generally are more difficult to borrow than other parts of
speech, or that verbs could never be borrowed as verbs and always
needed a re-verbalization in the borrowing language.
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