The Templatic Morphology of English Loan Verbs in Modern Hebrew

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2016
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Swarthmore College. Dept. of Linguistics
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This thesis examines the phenomenon of English verbs borrowed into Modern Hebrew, and their integration into the Hebrew verbal system. Focusing on the difficulties which arise when borrowing from a stem-based language into a root-based language, I analyze my data using McCarthy's theory oftemplatic morphology (1989). 1 find that the vast majority of the verbs do not fall into any of the existing verbal templates in Hebrew, but rather select a different pattern, one which 1 argue is based on a historical version of the pi' el verbal template. Additionally, 1 show that recognizability of the source in the Hebrew verb is a strong motivating factor in the borrowing process, and that to accommodate qualities of the source verb, the Hebrew template is acted on by natural phonetic processes, including metathesis.
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