A Typology of Verbal Borrowings
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A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

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A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

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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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Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
Year
2009
ISBN
9783110219340
Edition
1
Topic
Languages & Linguistics
Subtopic
Linguistics
Index
Languages & Linguistics

Table of contents

  1. Frontmatter
  2. Contents
  3. List of tables
  4. List of figures
  5. Abbreviations and symbols
  6. Preliminaries and conventions
  7. Chapter 1. Introduction
  8. Chapter 2. Methodology
  9. Chapter 3. Basic concepts
  10. Chapter 4. Introduction
  11. Chapter 5. Types of input forms
  12. Chapter 6. Direct Insertion
  13. Chapter 7. Indirect Insertion
  14. Chapter 8. The Light Verb Strategy and other complex predicates
  15. Chapter 9. Paradigm Insertion
  16. Chapter 10. Other patterns
  17. Chapter 11. Non-patterns
  18. Chapter 12. Summary: The strategies compared
  19. Chapter 13. Strategy distributions
  20. Chapter 14. Genealogical strategy distribution
  21. Chapter 15. Typological strategy distribution
  22. Chapter 16. Pattern distributions
  23. Chapter 17. Borrowing of accommodation patterns
  24. Chapter 18. Determining factors
  25. Chapter 19. Generalizations and implications
  26. Chapter 20. Conclusion
  27. Backmatter