Italian loan conjunctions in the alloglottic non-Romance languages of Italy

One aspect of conjunction behaviour in language contact is the degree to which conjunctions in specific functions are borrowable. The literature has proposed several implicational and causal borrowing hierarchies, which suggest that certain functions and categories of conjunctions tend to be borrowed at earlier stages of language contact than others. These hierarchies are tested in the present study on the basis of data from seven alloglottic languages of Italy – of Germanic, Slavic, Albanian, and Greek origin. The empirical data supports, in general, the proposed borrowing hierarchies, though with certain limitations. A range of new research questions emerges from the analysis of conjunctions in language contact

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