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An important aspect of the analysis of written language is to
explain its relationship to spoken language. The volume focuses on
how morphology influences forms of spelling. It brings together 8
papers, including a review of the historical development of German
and Dutch orthography, a paper about the possibilities for marking
morphological structure that exist in German spelling, and about
the effects of such marking on the process of reading.
this volume studies how speakers deal with loanwords from foreign
languages. Are foreign words adapted in pronunciation, writing,
flexion and syntax to the recipient language or do they keep
characteristics of the language of their origin? Do loan units
change the system of the recipient language or do they get changed
by it? Methodical considerations to identify foreign words
supplement these studies on German, Polish, Hebrew and Japanese.
Language change is operative at all levels of a language. Alongside
the effects of general linguistic change phenomena, word formation
displays a species of change all its own. A central concern of this
study is to delimit and describe this specific species. A
theoretical definition of the subject addressed by the study leads
on to an evaluation of authentic language material. It transpires
that word-formation change is centrally determined by changes in
linguistic productivity, empirically substantiated here by the
analysis of newspaper texts from the 17th to the 20th century.
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