The influence of English on Polish morphology

• Authors: Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld , Alicja Witalisz

Abstracts

EN

The aim of the present paper is to show that the influence of English is not only limited to the area of lexical borrowing. Non-lexical influence includes, for instance, occasional introduction of the genitive -s, semantic loans, loan translations and morphological modifications. Four English combining forms: -gate, -(a/o)holic, cyber-, e- have been selected for the analysis. The research material for the study comes mainly from the National Corpus of Polish as well as from some earlier publications on new morphological developments in Polish. The morphological and semantic analysis of the four combining forms include: the origin/s of each morpheme, their meaning/s, the type of morphemes they attach to, spelling rules, other information if applicable, e.g. gender, feminine counterparts. The adoption of English combining forms results in the adoption of a foreign word-formation rule that has become productive in Polish.

Keywords

EN

non-lexical influence of English; morphological loans; word-formation rules

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 421-434

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld

author

Alicja Witalisz

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2076897