Original scientific paper
The morphological adaptation of lexical loan words
Barbara Štebih
orcid.org/0000-0003-2192-2947
; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb
Abstract
In the paper the models of R. Filipović, J. Ajduković, J. Grotzky and V. Piškorec are analyzed.
According to the author the basic drawbacks of the existing models are that they start from the
assumption that in linguistic borrowing the word formation of the model is analyzed and that
adaptation processes and word formation processes motivated by the loan in the recipient language
are not sufficiently differentiated. On the basis of the analysis of Germanisms in the Kajkavian
literary language the author modifies the existing models and introduces terminological innovations
such as: initial form, contactological transcategorization, perceptual univerbization, contactological
compenzation. She determines that the relationship between the forms of the replica and
the model can be described as the relationship of etalone and the methaplasm, where the methaplasm
is formed by zero process, addition, substitution or most frequently change. She concludes
that transmorphemizational analysis has to be adapted to certain word classes, i. e. that its
starting point have to be grammatical categories specific for each of them (i. e. in nouns gender in
verbs aspect). She also stresses that it is important to differentiate between transmorphemization
and word formation motivated by loans.
Keywords
morphological adaptation; loan words; Germanisms; Kajkavian literary language; Croatian language
Hrčak ID:
30570
URI
Publication date:
17.12.2008.
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