Linguistic Borrowing in Bilingual Contexts Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	List of figures
	List of tables
Ch. 1	Introduction	1
1.1	Borrowing as bilingual performance	8
1.2	Mixed languages - Language intertwining or extensive borrowing?	11
1.3	The plan of this book	22
Ch. 2	Morphological structuring and system compatibility	25
2.1	Scales, indices, hierarchies, and clines: Continua of forms and meanings	27
2.2	Hierarchies of borrowability	34
2.3	The Principle of System Incompatibility	40
Ch. 3	Form classes and semantic types	49
3.1	Notions of word and word class	53
3.2	Contrasting points on a continuum	57
3.3	Semantic types: Groupings of morphemes according to meanings	70
3.4	Summary and comments	81
Ch. 4	The identification of form-meaning sets	83
4.1	Form identification characteristics: The role of salience	88
4.2	Semantic characteristics	100
4.3	Issues of semantic complexity	113
4.4	Summary and general predictions	116
Ch. 5	Borrowing patterns in modern Mexicano	123
5.1	Overview of the participants: Mexicano and Spanish	132
5.2	The role of form-meaning interpretation characteristics (FMICs)	144
5.3	The effects of borrowing	154
5.4	Discussion: The roles of form and meaning in borrowing	159
Ch. 6	Discussion	165
6.1	The PSI, FMICs, and other contact situations	169
6.2	The analysis of apparent exceptions	174
6.3	Connecting borrowing and various contact phenomena	180
6.4	The borrowability of inflectional categories	190
6.5	Conclusions	197
App. A	Additional Mexicano text	201
App. B	Spanish borrowings in the data	205
	References	229
	Name index	243
	Subject index	245