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This article investigates how morphological borrowing can take place in situations of language contact, and which factors play a role in this process. The author proposes that synthetic languages can use three strategies to form the plural of borrowed nouns and adjectives: oikomorphological, xenomorphological, and allomorphological. Data collected for varieties of Friulian in contact with different languages show that borrowed nouns can undergo all three types of morphological integration. The use of the xenomorphological strategy, which consists of forming the plural as in the donor language, is becoming widespread through generations of speakers of Friulian living in Italy. Basing on a comparison with the inflection of nouns and adjectives that Friulian has borrowed directly and indirectly from Italian and other languages, the author suggests that, in bilingual communities, the insertional codeswitching of inflected nouns and adjectives could be the “Trojan horse” that makes possible inflectional morphological borrowing.

Can morphological borrowing be an effect of codeswitching? Evidence from the inflectional morphology of borrowed nouns in Friulian