A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

Jan Wohlgemuth

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2009

A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

Jan Wohlgemuth

Volume 211 in the series Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110219340

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About this book

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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Jan Wohlgemuth, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	I
Contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
List of tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXI
List of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXIII
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Preliminaries and conventions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XXX
I. Towards loan verb typology
Chapter 1. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Chapter 2. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
Chapter 3. Basic concepts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
II. Loan verb accommodation
Chapter 4. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Chapter 5. Types of input forms Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Chapter 6. Direct Insertion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Chapter 7. Indirect Insertion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	94
Chapter 8. The Light Verb Strategy and other complex predicates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	102
Chapter 9. Paradigm Insertion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
Chapter 10. Other patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Chapter 11. Non-patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
Chapter 12. Summary: The strategies compared Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
III. Distributional analysis
Chapter 13. Strategy distributions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 14. Genealogical strategy distribution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
Chapter 15. Typological strategy distribution Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
Chapter 16. Pattern distributions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Chapter 17. Borrowing of accommodation patterns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
IV. Interpretation and conclusion
Chapter 18. Determining factors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Chapter 19. Generalizations and implications Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Chapter 20. Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Linguists, Typologists, Philologists, Historical Linguists, Sociolinguists
Pages
- Front matter: 32
- Main content: 459
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 23
- Tables: 44
Keywords: Typology; Language Change; Language Contact

eBook

Published: July 14, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219340

Hardcover

Published: July 15, 2009
ISBN: 9783110219333