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

dc.contributor.authorFisher, Rose
dc.contributor.authorDavid, Natvig
dc.contributor.authorPretorius, Erin
dc.contributor.authorMichael T, Michael T
dc.date.accessioned11/05/2022 15:17
dc.date.available11/05/2022 15:17
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstract: 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. A key claim of our analysis is that the s-exponent in Pennsylvania Dutch shares a syntactic representation for native and English-origin ? roots, although it is distinct from a �monolingual� English representation. Finally, we highlight how our treatment of plurality in Pennsylvania Dutch, and allomorphic variation more generally, makes predictions about the nature of bilingual morphosyntactic representations.en_US
dc.identifier.citation: Fisher, Rose, David Natvig, Erin Pretorius, Michael T. Putnam, and Katharina S. Schuhmann. 2022. Why Is Inflectional Morphology Difficult to Borrow?�Distributing and Lexicalizing Plural Allomorphy in Pennsylvania Dutch. Languages 7: 86. https://doi.org/10.3390/ languages7020086en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.3390/ languages7020086
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/7378
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectSyntax-morphology interfaceen_US
dc.subjectExponencyen_US
dc.subjectBilingual mental lexiconen_US
dc.subjectPluralityen_US
dc.titleWhy is inflectional morphology difficult to borrow?�Distributing and lexicalizing plural allomorphy in pennsylvania Dutchen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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