toneless Latinate adjectives in Serbo-Croatian
Marko Simonović (Author)

Abstract

A case of exceptional assignment of prosody to loanwords is considered. In SerboCroatian, where in loanwords the original position of stress is generally preserved in some way, a small class of Latinate adjectives (e.g., element ‚ arna ¯ ‘elementary’ and person ‚ alna ¯ ‘personal’) become toneless and they display the postcyclic initial falling accent. An account of these data is proposed which combines a new approach to postcyclic prosody, which is shown to go hand in hand with syntactically opaque structures, and a new model of loanword integration, which views the loanword trajectory as lexicalisation. As a result, an enriched theory of both domains and their interaction arises to account for the data and shed some additional light on the position of loanwords in the architecture of the grammar/lexicon.

Keywords

loanword integration;postcyclic prosody;morphology;

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Language: English
Year of publishing:
Typology: 1.08 - Published Scientific Conference Contribution
Organization: UNG - University of Nova Gorica
UDC: 81
COBISS: 5058043 Link will open in a new window
ISSN: 1216-8076
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URN: URN:SI:UNG
Type (COBISS): Not categorized
Pages: str. 221-243
Volume: ǂVol. ǂ59
Issue: ǂno. ǂ1/2
Chronology: 2012
DOI: 10.1556/ALing.59.2012.1-2.10
ID: 10904164
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