Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts / Fredric W. Field ; foreword by Bernard Comrie.
Material type: TextLanguage: English, Nahuatl, Spanish Series: Studies in language companion series ; v. 62.Publisher: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xiii, 252 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1588112853
- 9781588112859
- 404.2 21
- P324 .F54 2002
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-242) and index.
Ch. 1. Introduction -- 1.1. Borrowing as bilingual performance -- 1.2. Mixed languages - Language intertwining or extensive borrowing? -- 1.3. The plan of this book -- Ch. 2. Morphological structuring and system compatibility -- 2.1. Scales, indices, hierarchies, and clines: Continua of forms and meanings -- 2.2. Hierarchies of borrowability -- 2.3. The Principle of System Incompatibility -- Ch. 3. Form classes and semantic types -- 3.1. Notions of word and word class -- 3.2. Contrasting points on a continuum -- 3.3. Semantic types: Groupings of morphemes according to meanings -- 3.4. Summary and comments -- Ch. 4. The identification of form-meaning sets -- 4.1. Form identification characteristics: The role of salience -- 4.2. Semantic characteristics -- 4.3. Issues of semantic complexity -- 4.4. Summary and general predictions -- Ch. 5. Borrowing patterns in modern Mexicano -- 5.1. Overview of the participants: Mexicano and Spanish -- 5.2. The role of form-meaning interpretation characteristics (FMICs) -- 5.3. The effects of borrowing -- 5.4. Discussion: The roles of form and meaning in borrowing -- Ch. 6. Discussion -- 6.1. The PSI, FMICs, and other contact situations -- 6.2. The analysis of apparent exceptions -- 6.3. Connecting borrowing and various contact phenomena -- 6.4. The borrowability of inflectional categories -- 6.5. Conclusions -- App. A. Additional Mexicano text -- App. B. Spanish borrowings in the data.
Includes examples in Nahuatl and Spanish, with additional Nahuatl text in the appendix.
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