Filologija, No. 9, 1980.
Original scientific paper
Transmorphemization -the most common form of substitution on the morphological level
Rudolf Filipović
Abstract
The author proposes a new term for substitution on the morphological level: 'transmorphemization' which covers all the changes a morpheme goes through on its way from the lending language to the borrowing language. The adaptation begins when the citation form of the lending language is changed in order to integrate it into the morphological system of the borrowing language. The author distinguishes three degrees of transmorphemization among nouns: 1) Zero or first-degree transmorphemization occurs when the citation form is borrowed without a bound morpheme; 2) Compromise or second-degree transmorphemization takes place when a bound morpheme of the lending language is maintained, although it does not belong to the borrowing language's system; 3) Complete or third-degree transmorphemization occurs when a bound morpheme of the lending language is replaced by a bound morpheme of the borrowing language. The third degree covers the cases when a new bound morpheme is given to a loanword in order to denote one or more of its categories (e. g. gender).
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Hrčak ID:
183873
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Publication date:
1.11.1979.
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