Aivaliot Morphology: Selected Phenomena from Prefixization and Verb Borrowing
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Angela Ralli
Abstract
In this article, I deal with two phenomena of Aivaliot morphology, the formation of a prefixoid and the integration of verbal loans from Turkish and Italo-Romance. The Aivaliot dialect was spoken before 1922 in Western Asia Minor and nowadays is still found in few dialectal enclaves of the Greek island of Lesbos. After a brief historic and linguistic overview of the dialect, I describe and analyze the native prefixoid plako-, which is unknown in Standard Modern Greek. I argue that the use of affixoids should be seen as language dependent and that affixoids may appear in languages with stem-based morphology, as is the case of Aivaliot. The role of stems in Aivaliot morphology is also pointed out in the subsequent section on verb borrowing, where verbs of both Turkish and Italo-Romance origin are examined. I demonstrate that the integration of these items follows different patterns but does not depend on the donor language. I propose that, for a given language, it is possible to borrow and accommodate verbs, provided that certain conditions are met, such as the integration of the loan item according to the rules of the native morphology of the recipient and a certain matching of the morphophonological properties of the languages that are in contact.
Abstract
In this article, I deal with two phenomena of Aivaliot morphology, the formation of a prefixoid and the integration of verbal loans from Turkish and Italo-Romance. The Aivaliot dialect was spoken before 1922 in Western Asia Minor and nowadays is still found in few dialectal enclaves of the Greek island of Lesbos. After a brief historic and linguistic overview of the dialect, I describe and analyze the native prefixoid plako-, which is unknown in Standard Modern Greek. I argue that the use of affixoids should be seen as language dependent and that affixoids may appear in languages with stem-based morphology, as is the case of Aivaliot. The role of stems in Aivaliot morphology is also pointed out in the subsequent section on verb borrowing, where verbs of both Turkish and Italo-Romance origin are examined. I demonstrate that the integration of these items follows different patterns but does not depend on the donor language. I propose that, for a given language, it is possible to borrow and accommodate verbs, provided that certain conditions are met, such as the integration of the loan item according to the rules of the native morphology of the recipient and a certain matching of the morphophonological properties of the languages that are in contact.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- List of Figures and Charts IX
- List of Tables XI
- Abbreviations
- In Honour of Mark Janse 1
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Part I: Greek Through the Ages — From Homer to Byzantium
- Hyperbaton and Homeric Colometry: A First Exploration 15
- Aspect in the Gortyn Law Code: The Subjectivity of the Category 41
- Tense, Aspect, Iterativity and Related Textual Criticism: A Case Study Based on Herodotos, Historiai 4.78 65
- The Tragic Aorist: A Well-defined and Homogeneous Group? 101
- Changes in Word Order: Scribal Corrections to the Placement of Clitic Pronouns 127
- Κένταυρος, Κέρβερος and Their Possible Etymological Relatives 139
- Light from Gothic on the Post-Classical Greek Lexicon 161
- The Theory of Semantic Fields and the Greek Lexicon: The Case of ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ and its Semantic Congeners in the History of the Greek Language 167
- Figs and the City: A Comic Cocktail (Aristophanes, fr. [dub.] 955 Kassel-Austin, PCG) 197
- Musings on an Attic Muse: Three Ancient Responses to a Passage from Xenophon’s Anabasis 215
- ἐρρωμένος μοι διατελοῖς μετὰ τῶν φιλτάτων κύριέ μου ἀσύγκριτε: The Social Semiotics of Formulaic Extravagance in the Ancient Greek Epistolary Frame 237
- Homer in Byzantium: Comment parler des livres que l’on n’a pas lus? 271
- Koineization in Ancient Epirus: Some Additional Insights from Onomastics 301
- The Papyrus of the Curse of Artemisia: Dialect and Interference 333
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Part II: Greek in Contact — Dialect and Diversity in the Modern Era
- On the So-Called Progressive in Romeyka 353
- The Exploitation of Turkish Dialectal Lexicography: Dialectal Turkish Loanwords in the Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects 381
- Investigating Derivational Borrowability in the Cappadocian Greek Dialectal Landscape: The Emergence of allo-morphomes 401
- Aivaliot Morphology: Selected Phenomena from Prefixization and Verb Borrowing 429
- Innovation and Retention in Silliot Greek 459
- The Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects as a Contribution to the Study of Variation and Change 477
- List of Contributors 503
- Index Rerum
- Index Nominum
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
- List of Figures and Charts IX
- List of Tables XI
- Abbreviations
- In Honour of Mark Janse 1
-
Part I: Greek Through the Ages — From Homer to Byzantium
- Hyperbaton and Homeric Colometry: A First Exploration 15
- Aspect in the Gortyn Law Code: The Subjectivity of the Category 41
- Tense, Aspect, Iterativity and Related Textual Criticism: A Case Study Based on Herodotos, Historiai 4.78 65
- The Tragic Aorist: A Well-defined and Homogeneous Group? 101
- Changes in Word Order: Scribal Corrections to the Placement of Clitic Pronouns 127
- Κένταυρος, Κέρβερος and Their Possible Etymological Relatives 139
- Light from Gothic on the Post-Classical Greek Lexicon 161
- The Theory of Semantic Fields and the Greek Lexicon: The Case of ΠΟΝΗΡΟΣ and its Semantic Congeners in the History of the Greek Language 167
- Figs and the City: A Comic Cocktail (Aristophanes, fr. [dub.] 955 Kassel-Austin, PCG) 197
- Musings on an Attic Muse: Three Ancient Responses to a Passage from Xenophon’s Anabasis 215
- ἐρρωμένος μοι διατελοῖς μετὰ τῶν φιλτάτων κύριέ μου ἀσύγκριτε: The Social Semiotics of Formulaic Extravagance in the Ancient Greek Epistolary Frame 237
- Homer in Byzantium: Comment parler des livres que l’on n’a pas lus? 271
- Koineization in Ancient Epirus: Some Additional Insights from Onomastics 301
- The Papyrus of the Curse of Artemisia: Dialect and Interference 333
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Part II: Greek in Contact — Dialect and Diversity in the Modern Era
- On the So-Called Progressive in Romeyka 353
- The Exploitation of Turkish Dialectal Lexicography: Dialectal Turkish Loanwords in the Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects 381
- Investigating Derivational Borrowability in the Cappadocian Greek Dialectal Landscape: The Emergence of allo-morphomes 401
- Aivaliot Morphology: Selected Phenomena from Prefixization and Verb Borrowing 429
- Innovation and Retention in Silliot Greek 459
- The Historical Dictionary of Cappadocian Dialects as a Contribution to the Study of Variation and Change 477
- List of Contributors 503
- Index Rerum
- Index Nominum
