Loanblends in the speech of Greek heritage speakers: a corpus-based lexicological approach

Page 351-360
Author Zoe Gavriilidou, Lydia Mitits
Title Loanblends in the speech of Greek heritage speakers: a corpus-based lexicological approach
Abstract Found in situations of language contact between Greek and English, Greek heritage speakers living in the US, Canada, Australia, etc. produce loanblends, which combine an English stem e.g. fence and a Greek affix e.g. -?, as in fénsi ‘fence’. These loanblends are very frequent contact-induced formations that have become part of the Heritage Speakers’ everyday language usage. This study analyses fifty (50) such loanblends found in the Greek Heritage Language Corpus, which contains data from Greek Heritage Speakers living in Chicago, US, tests the borrowability scale constraint and the unmarked gender hypothesis for loanwords, and discusses the lexicographic protocol for the compilation of an online dictionary of loanblends of Greek Heritage Speakers.
Session Lexicological Issues of Lexicographical Relevance
Keywords loanwords; loanblends; Greek Heritage Language; borrowability scale; gender assignment; unmarked gender
BibTex 
@inproceedings{ELX2020_2021-036,
address = {Alexandroupolis},
title = {Loanblends in the speech of {Greek} heritage speakers: a corpus-based lexicological approach},
isbn = {978-618-85138-1-5},
url = {https://www.euralex.org/elx_proceedings/Euralex2020-2021/EURALEX2020-2021_Vol1-p351-360.pdf},
language = {en},
booktitle = {Lexicography for {Inclusion}: {Proceedings} of the 19th {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}, 7-9 {September} 2021, {Alexandroupolis}, {Vol}. 1},
publisher = {Democritus University of Thrace},
author = {Gavriilidou, Zoe and Mitits, Lydia},
editor = {Gavriilidou, Zoe and Mitsiaki, Maria and Fliatouras, Asimakis},
year = {2020},
pages = {351--360},}
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