Mandarin loan verbs in Chinese minority languages [Japanese translation version]
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Lexical borrowing is not uncommon in human languages. The borrowing of verbs is believed to be more difficult than that of nouns. The strategies of how verbs can be borrowed vary in different languages. Since Chinese minority languages have long been in close contact with Mandarin Chinese in history, loan verbs from the latter are attested in minority languages to various extents. This paper analyzes the borrowing strategies of Mandarin loan verbs in minority languages and suggests that there are mainly four types of borrowing, i.e. direct borrowing, verbalizing affixation, coordination with light verbs and structural accommodation. The influence of language phylogeny, morphological paradigm and syntactic structure of verb borrowings as well as their typological features are also discussed.
Authors: HUANG, Chenglong, SUZUKI, Hiroyuki
Institutions: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Kyoto University
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W6911513429
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