Table 1.
Possible and impossible patterns of word-internal mixing.
Language pair | Possible mixing | Impossible mixing | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
root | inflection | root | inflection | |
German-Spanish | Spanish | German | German | Spanish |
German-Greek | German | Greek | Greek | German |
English-Greek | English | Greek | Greek | English |
English-Norwegian | English | Norwegian | Norwegian | English |
English-Telugu | Telugu | English | English | Telugu |