The morphology of English loanwords in European languages

• Authors: Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Görlach's (2003) claim is that modern anglicisms do not assimilate in European languages on the morphological level, by contrast, it is claimed and proved here that in most cases they are adapted, which means that nouns are firstly assigned the grammatical gender and then declined accordingly in most of the investigated sixteen European languages, and that in the majority of tongues nouns take the native marker of plurality. Görlach is right only in suggesting that compound and complex words are not assimilated since they are treated as simple words. Other parts of speech, which are far less often borrowed, are assimilated to a lesser extent, which is in large part due to their low frequency.

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• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 125

Dates

published

2008

online

2015-02-25

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld