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<p>This paper discusses morphological borrowing from American-English to Dutch. Three processes of non-morphemic word formation are studied: embellished clipping (<italic>Afro</italic> from <italic>African</italic>), libfixing (extracting segments from opaque wordforms such -<italic>topia</italic> from <italic>utopia</italic> and -(<italic>po</italic>)<italic>calypse</italic> from <italic>apocalypse</italic>) and blending (<italic>stagflation</italic> &lt; <italic>stagnation</italic> + <italic>inflation</italic>). It will be shown that the borrowing of these processes started with borrowing of English lexical material followed by a process of reinterpretation, which subsequently led to the (re-)introduction of the processes in Dutch. Therefore, the traditional distinction between MAT and PAT borrowing turns out to be inadequate. Instead of a clear-cut difference between lexical and morphological borrowing a borrowing cline will be proposed. The respective ends of this cline are MAT and PAT.</p>
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This paper discusses morphological borrowing from American-English to Dutch. Three processes of non-morphemic word formation are studied: embellished clipping (Afro from African), libfixing (extracting segments from opaque wordforms such -topia from utopia and -(po)calypse from apocalypse) and blending (stagflation < stagnation + inflation). It will be shown that the borrowing of these processes started with borrowing of English lexical material followed by a process of reinterpretation, which subsequently led to the (re-)introduction of the processes in Dutch. Therefore, the traditional distinction between MAT and PAT borrowing turns out to be inadequate. Instead of a clear-cut difference between lexical and morphological borrowing a borrowing cline will be proposed. The respective ends of this cline are MAT and PAT.

A Lesson for Covidiots<sup>1,2</sup> About Some Contact Induced Borrowing of American English Morphological Processes Into Dutch

Studia Anglica Posnaniensia

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A Lesson for Covidiots About Some Contact Induced Borrowing of American English Morphological Processes Into Dutch

This paper discusses morphological borrowing from American-English to Dutch. Three processes of non-morphemic word formation are studied: embellished clipping...

A Lesson for Covidiots^1,2 About Some Contact Induced Borrowing of American English Morphological Processes Into Dutch

Published Online: Feb 12, 2022

Page range: 659 - 691

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2021-0009

Keywords
Morphological borrowing, non-morphemic word formation, embellished clipping, libfixing, blending

© 2021 Camiel Hamans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Lesson for Covidiots1,2 About Some Contact Induced Borrowing of American English Morphological Processes Into Dutch

Published Online: Feb 12, 2022

Page range: 659 - 691

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/stap-2021-0009

KeywordsMorphological borrowing, non-morphemic word formation, embellished clipping, libfixing, blending

© 2021 Camiel Hamans, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

A Lesson for Covidiots^1,2 About Some Contact Induced Borrowing of American English Morphological Processes Into Dutch

Keywords
Morphological borrowing, non-morphemic word formation, embellished clipping, libfixing, blending