Book: Bilingual borrowings

[McGinnis, Scott]

Title: Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts
Series Title: Studies in Language Companion Series 62
			
Publication Year: 2002
Publisher: John Benjamins
           http://www.benjamins.com/, http://www.benjamins.nl

			
Book URL:
http://www.benjamins.nl/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=SLCS_62
			
Author: Fredric W. Field, California State University, Northridge

Hardback: ISBN: 902723065X, Pages: xviii, 255 pp., Price: EUR 92.00
Hardback: ISBN: 1588112853, Pages: xviii, 255 pp., Price: USD 92.00
			
Abstract:

A number of previous approaches to linguistic borrowing and contact
phenomena in general have concluded that there are no formal
boundaries whatsoever to the kinds of material that can pass from one
language into another. At the same time, various hierarchies
illustrate that some things are indeed more likely to be borrowed than
others. Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts addresses both, by
examining claims of no absolute limits and synthesizing various
hierarchies. It observes that all contact phenomena are systematic,
and borrowing is no exception. Regarding forms, the determining
factors lie in the nature of the morphological systems in contact and
how they relate to one another. Two principles are proposed to
determine the nature of the systematicity and interaction: the
Principle of System Compatibility (PSC), and its corollary, the
Principle of System Incompatibility (PSI). Together, these principles
provide a consistent account of the possibilities and limits to
borrowing.

Table of Contents

Foreword  xi-xxii
Preface  xiii-xv
List of figures  xvii
List of tables  xix
Introduction  1-24
Morphological structuring and system compatibility  25-48
Form classes and semantic types  49-82
The identification of form-meaning sets  83-122
Borrowing patterns in modern Mexicano  123-164
Discussion  165-201
Appendix A: Additional Mexicano text  203-205
Appendix B: Spanish borrowings in the data  207-231
References  233-246

Lingfield(s):   Bi- & Multilingualism (Sociolinguistics)
		Dialectology (Sociolinguistics)
		Sociolinguistics

Written In:  English (Language Code: ENG)