Wohlgemuth A Typology of Verbal Borrowings

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-3-11-021934-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 211, 491 Seiten, Gewicht: 10 g

Reihe: Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM]ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Linguists, Typologists, Philologists, Historical Linguists, Socio

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wohlgemuth, Jan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Grammatik, Syntax, Morphologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Sprachsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Frontmatter;1
2;Contents;11
3;List of tables;21
4;List of figures;23
5;Abbreviations and symbols;24
6;Preliminaries and conventions;30
7;Chapter 1. Introduction;35
8;Chapter 2. Methodology;57
9;Chapter 3. Basic concepts;82
10;Chapter 4. Introduction;103
11;Chapter 5. Types of input forms;107
12;Chapter 6. Direct Insertion;119
13;Chapter 7. Indirect Insertion;126
14;Chapter 8. The Light Verb Strategy and other complex predicates;134
15;Chapter 9. Paradigm Insertion;150
16;Chapter 10. Other patterns;156
17;Chapter 11. Non-patterns;160
18;Chapter 12. Summary: The strategies compared;165
19;Chapter 13. Strategy distributions;177
20;Chapter 14. Genealogical strategy distribution;189
21;Chapter 15. Typological strategy distribution;220
22;Chapter 16. Pattern distributions;238
23;Chapter 17. Borrowing of accommodation patterns;256
24;Chapter 18. Determining factors;277
25;Chapter 19. Generalizations and implications;297
26;Chapter 20. Conclusion;323
27;Backmatter;335

Über Autor(innen)

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