A Typology of Verbal Borrowings /

A Typology of Verbal Borrowings / / Jan Wohlgemuth.

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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 typo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
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Wohlgemuth, Jan,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Trends in Linguistics. Studies and Monographs [TiLSM] , 211
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Physical Description:1 online resource (459 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of tables
  • List of figures
  • Abbreviations and symbols
  • Preliminaries and conventions
  • I. Towards loan verb typology
  • Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Methodology
  • Chapter 3. Basic concepts
  • II. Loan verb accommodation
  • Chapter 4. Introduction
  • Chapter 5. Types of input forms
  • Chapter 6. Direct Insertion
  • Chapter 7. Indirect Insertion
  • Chapter 8. The Light Verb Strategy and other complex predicates
  • Chapter 9. Paradigm Insertion
  • Chapter 10. Other patterns
  • Chapter 11. Non-patterns
  • Chapter 12. Summary: The strategies compared
  • III. Distributional analysis
  • Chapter 13. Strategy distributions
  • Chapter 14. Genealogical strategy distribution
  • Chapter 15. Typological strategy distribution
  • Chapter 16. Pattern distributions
  • Chapter 17. Borrowing of accommodation patterns
  • IV. Interpretation and conclusion
  • Chapter 18. Determining factors
  • Chapter 19. Generalizations and implications
  • Chapter 20. Conclusion
  • Backmatter

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