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This paper proposes a structural borrowing account for a lexicogrammatical phenomenon whereby, in on ongoing Cantonese discourse, the use of a single-word English preposition triggers and activates an English construction, specifically an NP COP P NP sequence, and brings it into that discourse. The borrowed structure eventually converges with Cantonese, with the English preposition reanalyzed as a verb or a coverb. It is further suggested that these processes of structural borrowing and convergence are semantically motivated. Drawing on Cognitive Grammar, the borrowed structure profiles a location as a relationship (whereas in Cantonese it is profiled as a thing by a postposition), and the (i.e., ) is profiled as a property of the subject or trajector (whereas in Cantonese a coverb phrase is always associated with a process). The converged constructions – in which an English preposition is reanalyzed as a verb or coverb – profile more dynamic and specific processes.

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  • Article Type: Research Article
Keyword(s): code-switching; convergence; copula; coverb; postposition; Preposition; structural borrowing; 前置詞（介詞）; 外借結構; 後置詞（介詞）; 方位詞; 結構合流; 語碼轉換; 連動詞; 關係詞

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