[Lingtyp] morphological borrowings apart from lexical ones

[Sergey Loesov]

Dear colleagues,

Have you ever thought of morphological borrowings (especially of nominal
plural suffixes) that happened independently of massive lexical borrowings
from the source language?

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.



Have you ever seen this kind of evidence in better understood and/or living
languages?



Thank you

Sergey
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