Parallel System Borrowing

Parallel morphological systems due to the borrowing of paradigms

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ID20344653
AutoresMaarten Kossmann (0000-0002-7878-5544, Leiden University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen27
Número3
Páginas459-488
Fecha de publicación2010-11-03
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDiachronica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0176-4225 • E-ISSN: 1569-9714
EditorialJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/dia.27.3.03kos
OpenAlexW1973217169
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8

In the typology of morphological borrowing, one type has received little attention: cases where words are borrowed in several paradigmatic forms. An example of this is found in English alumnus – alumni , where Latin nouns are borrowed both in their singular and plural forms. Such borrowings lead to a coexistence of borrowed and native paradigms in one and the same language. This type of borrowing is called Parallel System Borrowing (PSB). Such patterns are wide-spread, and concern virtually all parts of morphology, including verbal inflection and pronouns. The emergence of PSB is not governed by a single sociolinguistic factor, such as the existence of learned registers (as with alumnus – alumni ). In fact, it appears that some of the most spectacular cases of PSB have no relation to learned registers at all

Grammaticalization · Inflection · Linguistics · Noun · Plural · Sociology · Typology · Anthropology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy

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