The emergence of postcyclic prosody in loanword integration: Toneless Latinate adjectives in Serbo-Croatian
The emergence of postcyclic prosody in loanword integration: Toneless Latinate adjectives in Serbo-Croatian
Author(s): Marko SimonovićSubject(s): Morphology, Syntax, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: loanword integration; postcyclic prosody; prosody/syntax interface; morphology; lexicon;
Summary/Abstract: A case of exceptional assignment of prosody to loanwords is considered. In Serbo-Croatian, where in loanwords the original position of stress is generally preserved in some way, a small class of Latinate adjectives (e.g., "elementārna ‘elementary’ and p"ersonālna ‘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.
Journal: Acta Linguistica Hungarica (Since 2017 Acta Linguistica Academica)
- Issue Year: 59/2012
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 221-243
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English