Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts /

Field, Fredric W.,

Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts / Fredric W. Field ; foreword by Bernard Comrie. - xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cm. - Studies in language companion series, v. 62 0165-7763 ; . - Studies in language companion series ; v. 62. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.

Introduction -- Borrowing as bilingual performance -- Mixed languages - Language intertwining or extensive borrowing? -- The plan of this book -- Morphological structuring and system compatibility -- Scales, indices, hierarchies, and clines: Continua of forms and meanings -- Hierarchies of borrowability -- The Principle of System Incompatibility -- Form classes and semantic types -- Notions of word and word class -- Contrasting points on a continuum -- Semantic types: Groupings of morphemes according to meanings -- Summary and comments -- The identification of form-meaning sets -- Form identification characteristics: The role of salience -- Semantic characteristics -- Issues of semantic complexity -- Summary and general predictions -- Borrowing patterns in modern Mexicano -- Overview of the participants: Mexicano and Spanish -- The role of form-meaning interpretation characteristics (FMICs) -- The effects of borrowing -- Discussion: The roles of form and meaning in borrowing -- Discussion -- The PSI, FMICs, and other contact situations -- The analysis of apparent exceptions -- Connecting borrowing and various contact phenomena -- The borrowability of inflectional categories -- Conclusions -- Additional Mexicano text -- Spanish borrowings in the data. Ch. 1. 1.1. 1.2. 1.3. Ch. 2. 2.1. 2.2. 2.3. Ch. 3. 3.1. 3.2. 3.3. 3.4. Ch. 4. 4.1. 4.2. 4.3. 4.4. Ch. 5. 5.1. 5.2. 5.3. 5.4. Ch. 6. 6.1. 6.2. 6.3. 6.4. 6.5. App. A. App. B.


Includes examples in Nahuatl and Spanish, with additional Nahuatl text in the appendix.

1588112853 9781588112859

2002074680


Language and languages--Foreign elements
Languages in contact
Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology
Semantics.

P324 / .F54 2002

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