28.379, Books: The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu: Mangrio
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Subject: 28.379, Books: The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu: Mangrio
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 11:41:42
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu: Mangrio
Title: The Morphology of Loanwords in Urdu
Subtitle: The Persian, Arabic and English Strands
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-morphology-of-loanwords-in-urdu
Author: Riaz Ahmed Mangrio
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443871624 Pages: 185 Price: U.K. £ 41.99
Hardback: ISBN: 9781443871624 Pages: 185 Price: U.S. $ 71.95
Abstract:
Although a major language in itself, Urdu has borrowed words from three major
languages of the world, namely Persian, Arabic and English, with various loan
morphological and phonological features. There have been very few studies on
this phenomenon, and many features are still unexplored. This study focuses on
loanword morphology, and looks at the nature of loanwords borrowed from these
three languages.
The book begins by examining the morphological adaptation of loanwords.
Secondly, parallels and differences are explored between the relatively recent
adaptation of English loans and the older adaptation of words from Arabic and
Persian. The descriptive content of the book – covering as it does not only
English loanwords, but those from Arabic and Persian as well, in addition to
examining native Urdu structures – is refreshingly broad.
The study itself is primarily descriptive, carefully teasing apart the
sometimes complex interactions between syntax, semantics and linguistic
function relative to loanword adaptation. However, even beyond the question of
loanword adaptation, there is much to recommend itself descriptively here,
with regard to the morphological structures of Urdu, including endocentric,
exocentric, copulative, postpositional and verbal compounds. In addition to
such derivational processes, this study also considers various inflectional
issues, such as gender, number and case morphology, the pluralisation of
English nominal loans, and the adaptation of English verbs through the use of
Urdu dummy verbs.
The book offers a good foundation for a more in-depth examination of the data
against current morphological theory. Taken as a whole, it not only presents a
large quantity of interesting data in pursuing the immediate question of
loanword adaptation in Urdu, but also provides a fruitful starting point for a
wealth of further investigations into Urdu and into loanword adaptation more
generally.
Linguistic Field(s): Morphology
Phonology
Semantics
Syntax
Subject Language(s): Urdu (urd)
Written In: English (eng)
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