English phrases, French verbs: Causes and consequences of loan word accommodation biases KU Leuven
When loan words enter their recipient language, they accommodate to the structure and paradigms of that language. The most common accommodation strategy cross‑linguistically is ‘direct insertion’, where recipient‑language inflections can be added directly to the loan verb stem. However, this PhD project has shown that – even under direct insertion – loan words can be biased towards specific inflectional and grammatical categories, and we have ...