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.
Author(s): Francesco Gardani, Peter Arkadiev, Nino Amiridze (Editor)
Series: Language Contact and Bilingualism
Publisher: De Gruyter
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 316
Contents......Page 5
Borrowed morphology: an overview......Page 7
Part I. Theory......Page 31
When is the diffusion of inflectional morphology not dispreferred?......Page 33
Why is the borrowing of inflectional morphology dispreferred?......Page 53
Part II. Borrowing of derivation......Page 87
Borrowing of verbal derivational morphology between Semitic languages: the case of Arabic verb derivations in Neo-Aramaic......Page 89
Borrowing verbs from Oghuz Turkic: two linguistic areas......Page 115
Common denominal verbalizers in the Transeurasian languages: borrowed or inherited?......Page 143
Part III. Borrowing of inflection......Page 161
A comparison of copied morphemes in Sakha (Yakut) and Even......Page 163
From absolutely optional to only nominally ergative: the life cycle of the Gurindji ergative suffix......Page 195
Contact intensity and the borrowing of bound morphology in Korlai Indo-Portuguese......Page 225
Innovative complexity in the pronominal paradigm of Mojeño: a result of contact?......Page 247
Adjective-noun agreement in language contact: loss, realignment and innovation......Page 275
Index of subjects......Page 309
Index of languages......Page 313
