The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation

About the Book

Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this book examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word formation. Historically, borrowing has largely been studied from etymological and lexicographical perspectives and word formation has been included in morphology. However, this book focuses on their mutual influence and interaction. Bringing together a range of contributors, each chapter illustrates how borrowing and word formation are in competition as alternative naming processes, while also showing how they can influence each other. The case studies are framed by an introduction that describes the general background and a conclusion that summarises the main findings.

Table of Contents:
List of contributors; List of figures and tables; PrefaceChapter 1: Word formation, borrowing and their interactionPius ten Hacken and Renáta PanocováChapter 2: Compounding and contactBrian D. JosephChapter 3: Neoclassical compounds between borrowing and word formationRenáta Panocová and Pius ten Hacken Chapter 4: Borrowed compounds, borrowed compounding – Portuguese dataAlina VillalvaChapter 5: Compound calques in an 18th century German-Lithuanian dictionaryBonifacas StundžiaChapter 6: (Pseudo-)Anglicisms as nominal compounds in ItalianSilvia CacchianiChapter 7: The role of borrowing in the derivation of passive potential adjectives in Polish Maria Bloch-Trojnar Chapter 8: How an ‘Italian’ suffix became productive in Germanic languagesCamiel HamansChapter 9: The suffixes -ismus and -ita in nouns in CzechMagda ŠevčíkováChapter 10: The Interaction between Borrowing and Word Formation: Evidence from Modern Greek prefixesAngeliki Efthymiou Chapter 11: Loan word formation in minority languages: Lexical strata in Titsch and TöitschuLivio Gaeta and Marco AngsterChapter 12: Examining the integration of borrowed nouns in immigrant speech: the case of Canadian-GreekAngela Ralli and Vasiliki MakriChapter 13: Interaction among borrowing, inflection, and word formation in Polish Medieval LatinMichał RzepielaChapter 14: Trends in the interaction between borrowing and word formationPius ten Hacken and Renáta Panocová

About the Author :
Pius ten Hacken is a Professor of Translation Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on word formation, terminology and the mental lexicon. His latest monograph is Word Formation in Parallel Architecture (2019). Together with Maria Koliopoulou, he was guest editor for a special issue on New Words and Linguistic Purism of the International Journal of Lexicography (2020). His latest edited volume, co-edited with Renáta Panocová, is The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020). Renáta Panocová is a Professor of Linguistics at the Department of British and American Studies at the Faculty of Arts of the Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice. Her research focuses on word formation, language for special purposes and intercultural communication. Her latest monographs are The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-Based Study (2017) and Categories of Word Formation and Borrowing: An onomasiological account of neoclassical formations (2015). Together with Pius ten Hacken she edited The Interaction of Borrowing and Word Formation (Edinburgh University Press, 2020).