The emergence of postcyclic prosody in loanword integration: Toneless Latinate adjectives in Serbo-Croatian

Simonović, Marko (2012) The emergence of postcyclic prosody in loanword integration: Toneless Latinate adjectives in Serbo-Croatian. Acta Linguistica Hungarica, 59 (1-2). pp. 221-243. ISSN 1216-8076

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Abstract

A case of exceptional assignment of prosody to loanwords is considered. In Serbo-Croatian, where in loanwords the original position of stress is generally preserved in some way, a small class of Latinate adjectives (e.g., "elementārna ‘elementary’ and p"ersonālna ‘personal’) become toneless and they display the postcyclic initial falling accent. An account of these data is proposed which combines a new approach to postcyclic prosody, which is shown to go hand in hand with syntactically opaque structures, and a new model of loanword integration, which views the loanword trajectory as lexicalisation. As a result, an enriched theory of both domains and their interaction arises to account for the data and shed some additional light on the position of loanwords in the architecture of the grammar/lexicon.

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