Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?�Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch

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2022

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In this article we examine the allomorphic variation found in Pennsylvania Dutch plurality. In spite of over 250 years of variable contact with English, Pennsylvania Dutch plural allomorphy has remained largely distinct from English, except for a number of loan words and borrowings from English. Adopting a One Feature-One Head (OFOH) Architecture that interprets licit syntactic objects as spans, we argue that plurality is distributed across different root-types, resulting in stored lexical-trees (L-spans) in the bilingual mental lexicon. We expand the traditional feature inventory to be �mixed,� consisting of both semantically-grounded features as well as �pure� morphological features.

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Bilingual mental lexicon, Allomorphic, Language, Pennsylvania Dutch

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Fisher, R. et al. (2022). Why is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?�Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. Languages, 7(2), 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020086

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https://doi.org/10.3390/languages7020086
 https://hdl.handle.net/10566/7769

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