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Date: 19-Oct-2026
From: Fiammetta Namer [fiammetta.namer at univ-lorraine.fr]
Subject: Workshop at SLE 2027:The Paradigmatics of Borrowings


Workshop at SLE 2027:The Paradigmatics of Borrowings
Short Title: SLE 2027 - Borrowings

Date: 25-Aug-2027 - 28-Aug-2027
Location: Košice, Slovakia
Contact: Fiammetta Namer
Contact Email: fiammetta.namer at univ-lorraine.fr
Meeting URL:
https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2027/workshop-proposals-call-for-abstracts/

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Morphology

Submission Deadline: 05-Nov-2026

Title: The Paradigmatics of Borrowing
Convenors:
Magda Ševčíková (Charles University)
Fiammetta Namer (UMR ATILF, Université de Lorraine & CNRS)
Lior Laks (Bar-Ilan University)
Keywords: loanword, paradigm, lexical borrowing, morphological
borrowing, stem borrowing, integration, word-formation, suppletion
Workshop description and research questions:
Borrowing is one of the major mechanisms through which languages
expand and reorganize their lexicons. Research on borrowing has
traditionally focused on the transfer of lexical material and on the
ways in which borrowed words are adapted to the recipient language
(Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009). Yet contact-induced transfer is not
restricted to whole words: languages may also borrow stems, affixes,
word-formation patterns, and other morphological material or
structures (Seifart 2015; Gardani 2020; ten Hacken & Panocová 2020;
Souag 2020; Arkadiev & Kozhanov 2023). This raises the broader
question of how borrowed material becomes integrated into the
morphological organization of the recipient language, and how such
integration may affect existing patterns of word-formation.
The workshop approaches this question from a paradigmatic perspective,
focusing on lexical borrowing, stem borrowing, and morphological
borrowing. While the notion of the paradigm has traditionally been
central to inflectional morphology (Blevins 2013), paradigmatic
approaches have increasingly been extended to derivation, compounding,
and other word-formation processes (Štekauer 2014; Fernández-Domínguez
et al. 2020; Ruz et al. 2022; Ševčíková 2026, among others). Models
such as those proposed by Bonami & Strnadová (2019) and Hathout &
Namer (2022) provide ways of modelling morphological relatedness
within and across lexical families. This makes them particularly
relevant to borrowing, where the integration of new material may
create, extend, or disrupt relations among lexemes and morphological
families.
Borrowed material can participate in existing derivational families,
remain restricted to particular lexical or etymological strata, or
develop new patterns of productivity. In Italian, English -ing remains
restricted to English bases, while borrowed stems may enter further
Italian derivation, as in screening ‘screening’ – screenare ‘to
screen’ (Meinschaefer 2023). In Maltese, affixes of Italian or
Sicilian origin combine with Arabic and English bases, as in ċekkjatur
‘checker’ derived from the loan verb iċċekkja ‘to check’, but differ
in productivity and distribution (Saade 2020). Such patterns may
produce gaps and asymmetries or interact with existing word-formation
patterns, especially where complex formations lack a synchronically
available simpler counterpart (as in Slovak palatalizácia
‘palatalization’, for which the expected base verb is unattested;
Panocová 2017), or where morphological families involve distinct stems
(as in French cheval ‘horse’ – hippisme ‘horse racing’ – cavalier
‘rider’ – équestre ‘equestrian’; e.g. Amiot 2010, Roché 2010). A
paradigmatic perspective therefore provides a way of asking not only
whether a borrowed form is integrated into the recipient language, but
how its relations to other forms are organized and what determines the
extent of its integration.
The paradigmatic perspective may be particularly relevant to foreign
elements described by a range of terms, including combining forms,
non-native stems, quasi-lexemes, and affixoids. Their morphological
status and degree of integration may vary across languages, as
illustrated by Van Goethem et al.’s (2025) comparative study of
pseudo- in Germanic and Romance languages. Such elements have been
analyzed variously as affix-like elements, or as components of complex
lexical structures (Warren 1990; Fradin 2000; Kastovsky 2009; Prćić
2005; Bonami, Boyé, Kerleroux 2009; Bauer et al. 2013; Wiemeyer 2019;
Amiot & Dugas 2020), with particular attention to their semantic
contribution and productivity in word-formation (Fischer 1998; Lehrer
1998; Rita-Kasari 2013; Lalić-Krstin et al. 2022; Mattiello 2023;
Díaz-Negrillo 2020). Rather than presupposing a particular
classification, the workshop asks whether and how their participation
in morphological families and productive patterns can provide evidence
for their morphological status.
Morphological borrowing provides a further domain in which these
issues can be explored. Borrowed affixes may occur in hybrid
formations with native bases and, under suitable conditions, develop
into productive patterns (Pakendorf 2015; Seifart 2017). In
Istro-Romanian, for example, the Croatian prefix za- combines with
native Romance bases, as in latrå ‘bark.IPFV’ – za-latrå ‘bark.PFV’
(Gardani 2020; also Arkadiev 2017). Such cases make it possible to
investigate the transition from individual lexical borrowings to more
general morphological relations (Sakel 2007; Gardani 2008, Gardani et
al. 2015).
More broadly, then, borrowing may involve not only linguistic matter
but also processes, patterns, and even paradigms (Kossmann 2010). This
makes borrowing not only a domain in which paradigmatic organization
can be observed, but also a potential source of evidence for refining
theories of morphological relatedness, productivity, competition, and
the organization of lexical families.
We invite contributions that develop this line of inquiry through the
study of individual languages, cross-linguistic comparison, corpus
data, historical evidence, or formal and theoretical modelling. We
welcome work on a broad range of languages, particularly those and the
phenomena within them that have received insufficient scholarly
attention.
Possible questions include:
 - How are borrowed lexemes and stems integrated into derivational
paradigms and morphological families? Do borrowed items participate in
morphological families in ways comparable to native lexemes, and what
determines whether borrowed material remains restricted to particular
lexical items or becomes productive? What kinds of gaps, asymmetries,
or restrictions characterize such families?
 - What can paradigmatic structure tell us about the status of
combining forms and other non-native morphological elements? Do these
elements participate in morphological families and productive
word-formation patterns, and how does their paradigmatic behavior bear
on their classification?
 - How can paradigmatic approaches account for morphological families
involving suppletive stems? In particular, how are derivatives with
different stems related within a morphological family , and what does
their distribution reveal about the organization of derivational
paradigms?
 - How can paradigmatic approaches account for complex formations
involving borrowed material when corresponding simpler forms are
absent or unavailable? How should paradigmatic relations be
represented when a complex form is established before, or
independently of, a corresponding simpler form?
 - How does borrowed morphology become productive in the recipient
language? What paradigmatic relations emerge when borrowed affixes
combine with native bases, and how can these relations help
distinguish individual lexical borrowings from the emergence of
productive morphological patterns?
 - How do borrowed and native word-formation patterns interact? Do
borrowed formations compete with, duplicate, or complement existing
formations? Can paradigmatic models capture such competition and the
emergence of specialized lexical niches?
 - What kinds of evidence establish paradigmatic relations among
borrowed forms? How can formal, semantic, distributional, and
diachronic evidence determine whether borrowed forms belong to the
same morphological family or paradigm, particularly when their formal
relationships are opaque or etymologically mixed?
 - What can borrowing contribute to theories of paradigmatic
organization? Can gaps, asymmetries, competition, and mixed
native/non-native relations found in borrowed morphology motivate
refinements of existing paradigmatic models? Conversely, can
paradigmatic approaches provide criteria for distinguishing lexical,
stem, and morphological borrowing?
The workshop aims to bring together research on borrowing and
morphological theory to explore what the integration of borrowed
material can reveal about the organization of morphological paradigms,
and how a paradigmatic perspective can, in turn, contribute to our
understanding of borrowing.
Call for Abstracts:
For the planned workshop, we invite contributions that address, but
are not necessarily limited to, any of the above-mentioned issues
related to the paradigmatics of borrowing. They may examine borrowing
from both synchronic and diachronic perspectives, within individual
languages, cross-linguistically, or from the viewpoint of linguistic
typology.
Preliminary abstract of no more than 100 words (excluding references)
should be sent to the workshop convenors (sevcikova at ufal.mff.cuni.cz,
fiammetta.namer at univ-lorraine.fr, Lior.Laks at biu.ac.il) by 31 October
2026. Please include your affiliation, email address, and four to five
keywords.
If the workshop proposal is accepted, contributors will be asked to
submit a 500-word abstract by 15 January 2027.
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