Assessing productivity in contact
Italian derivation in Maltese
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4786322 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Saade (University of Bremen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-86 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Linguistics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0024-3949 • E-ISSN: 1613-396X |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/ling-2018-0031 |
| OpenAlex | W2908781572 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 44 |
Studies assessing morphological productivity almost exclusively focus on single languages. Maltese with its heavily mixed Arabic/Italian/Sicilian/English lexicon lends itself perfectly for a broadening of the study of morphological productivity towards a more crosslinguistic approach. Numerous derivational formatives that have been borrowed from Sicilian and Italian into Maltese are readily applied in new formations. This study investigates the degree to which these borrowed formatives have developed new productivity patterns in Maltese or just replicated patterns that are present in the source language. After a detailed typology of possible formations with the borrowed formatives, the investigation compares quantitative productivity scores for a subset of cognate derivational affixes in Maltese and Italian based on corpus data and lays out a general methodological framework for comparing productivity crosslinguistically. The approach has the potential to enrich the methodological repertoire of language contact studies by enabling more detailed statements about the status of borrowed morphology in a recipient language
Archaeology · Economics · Language contact · Lexicon · Linguistics · Literature · Maltese · Productivity · Repertoire · Sicilian · Typology · Computer Science · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy
Productivity, Blocking, and Lexicalization
Derivation in a Social Context
Language Contact and Grammatical Change
Corpus linguistics in morphology
II. Lexical borrowing
Language Contact, Creolization, and Genetic Linguistics
Introducing Maltese Linguistics
Copies versus Cognates in Bound Morphology
Word-Formation
What Motivates Morphological Copying
Productivity in Italian word formation
Chronicling the Times
The Analysis of Linguistic Borrowing
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |