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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dear Sergey,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">There are numerous instances of this in South Asian languages (Munda, Tibeto-Burman) that have replicated the Indo-Aryan relative-correlative construction (RCC) as a result of language contact</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">.
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Dravidian, </span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Munda and Tibeto-Burman languages lack
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">a native class of </span>
<span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">relative pronouns, so some fill this gap in the replicated RCCs by co</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">-</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">opting their
interrogative pronouns for this function, but a </span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">others</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">borrow the relative pronouns from Indo-Aryan languages in contact. This can occur in the absence of
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">significant</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> lexical borrowing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">See this
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">preliminary investigation</span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> for examples:
<a href="http://hdl.handle.net/2433/235269">http://hdl.handle<span lang="EN-US">.net/2433/235269</span></a></span><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="X-NONE" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Alec<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Lingtyp <lingtyp-bounces@listserv.linguistlist.org> on behalf of Sergey Loesov <sergeloesov@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Wednesday, 13 October 2021 at 9:52 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org" <lingtyp@listserv.linguistlist.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Lingtyp] morphological borrowings apart from lexical ones<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear colleagues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Have you ever thought of morphological borrowings (especially of nominal plural suffixes) that happened independently
of massive lexical borrowings from the source language? </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am thinking of a situation wherein a plural nominal suffix was admittedly borrowed from Akkadian into a
variety of Aramaic (a sister language of Akkadian), while this variety of Aramaic does not have a sizeable amount of outspoken lexical Akkadisms.
</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Have you ever seen this kind of evidence in better understood and/or living languages?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:106%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:106%;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sergey </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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