Resumen de Loanword marking as a mechanism of structural change
This paper focuses on the loanword integration mechanism whereby the loans are incorporated into a marginal word class in the recipient language. Synchronically, such integration mechanism appears to function as a loanword marking device motivated by the speakers’ awareness of these words’ foreign origin and desire to preserve their foreign flavor. Diachronically, it may lead or contribute to far-reaching structural and typological changes in the recipient languages. The specific focus of the paper is on prosody and inflection, with representative case studies drawn from a diverse selection of languages.
