Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics
Charles University, Czech Republic
Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
The project explores how loanwords, particularly internationalisms, behave morphologically across languages. While loanwords are typically adapted to the target language through inflection and word formation, they often retain a distinct lexical status. Despite extensive typological research, a comprehensive data-driven analysis is still lacking. By examining internationalisms in English, Czech, Hungarian, French, and Hindi using semi-automatic methods, this project aims to uncover cross-linguistic patterns of inflection and word-formation, advancing our understanding of how borrowed words integrate into diverse linguistic systems.
Publications
Posani, E. & Ševčíková, M. (2026). Morphological integration of loanwords: A cross-linguistic study of Hungarian, Czech, Hindi, and English. In Book of Abstracts of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, pp. 110–112. Presented at SLE 2026, Osnabrück, Germany.