Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2023
Abstract
The transfer of morphemes across languages in language contact situations may lead to an alteration in the morphology of the recipient language. One of the possible outcomes can be the introduction of newer word forms or a formation of newer morphological variants of the existing word forms in the recipient language.
Languages often borrow nominal roots and morphologically derive them into verbs and are thus integrated into respective derivational classes. This corpus-based analysis for Czech tries to show how synchronic derivational resources can be used to probabilistically analyze the effects of borrowing in language evolution by focusing on morphological integration of the borrowed nominal roots in verb formations.