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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.
By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and
morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed
morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and
methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues,
such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological
borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and
corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.
This is the first volume specifically dedicated to competition in
inflection and word-formation, a topic that has increasingly
attracted attention. Semantic categories, such as concepts,
classes, and feature bundles, can be expressed by more than one
form or formal pattern. This departure from the ideal principle
"one form - one meaning" is particularly frequent in morphology,
where it has been treated under diverse headings, such as blocking,
Elsewhere Condition, Panini's Principle, rivalry, synonymy,
doublets, overabundance, suppletion and other terms. Since these
research traditions, despite the heterogeneous terminology,
essentially refer to the same underlying problems, this volume
unites the phenomena studied in this field of linguistic morphology
under the more general heading of competition. The volume features
an extensive state of the art report on the subject and 11 research
papers, which represent various theoretical approaches to
morphology and address a wide range of aspects of competition,
including morphophonology, lexicology, diachrony, language contact,
psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics and language acquisition.
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Borrowed Morphology (Paperback)
Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev, Nino Amiridze
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By integrating novel developments in both contact linguistics and
morphological theory, this volume pursues the topic of borrowed
morphology by recourse to sophisticated theoretical and
methodological accounts. The authors address fundamental issues,
such as the alleged universal dispreference for morphological
borrowing and its effects on morphosyntactic complexity, and
corroborate their analyses with strong cross-linguistic evidence.
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