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What a difference a digraph made: phonetic spelling and the assimilation of the word “armada” in Early Modern English

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology
This article focusses on the joint evolution of the spelling and meaning of the word ‘armada’ to refer to a(n) (armed) fleet of ships in early modern English texts, from its first uses in translations of Latin and Italian texts in the first half of the ...
Laetitia Sansonetti
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Planet of The Men, scénario de Pierre Boulle

open access: yesReS Futurae, 2015
En 1968, au terme de son exploitation dans les salles, le film La Planète des singes rapporte près de quatre fois son budget. Cela suffit à convaincre le producteur Arthur P. Jacobs de commander une suite à Pierre Boulle.
Xavier Mauméjean
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LDC's Foreign Borrowing and Default Risk: An Empirical Investigation [PDF]

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This paper investigates to what extent the international financial community has taken into account the risk characteristics of borrowing less developed countries when granting loans.
Sebastian Edwards
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Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City

open access: yes, 2018
Lexical Borrowing and Deborrowing in Spanish in New York City provides a sociodemographic portrait of lexical borrowing in Spanish in New York City. The volume offers new and important insights into research on lexical borrowing.
Rachel Varra, Varra, Rachel
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Insider Trading? Exploring Familial Intra-generational Borrowing and Sharing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
This paper seeks to explore the concepts of borrowing and sharing and their relevance for our understanding of consumer socialisation. Whilst previous research has tended to focus on the parent-child dyad, this study considers the role of siblings in ...
Tinson, Julie, Nuttall, Peter
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Trends in the development of vocabulary for emotion and cognition in English: A millennial perspective

open access: yesLexis: Journal in English Lexicology
Existing research has shown that there is much variation in diachronic development and borrowability rates across different semantic fields in English, but most work up to now has focused on specialized or technical vocabulary, rather than fields ...
Kateryna Krykoniuk, Sara M. Pons-Sanz
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International Borrowing to Finance Investment [PDF]

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The motives of a small country for borrowing to purchase capital equipment on international markets are studied. The country produces tradable capital and a nontradable consumption good and borrows or lends capital to achieve higher levels of welfare.
Charles Engel, Kenneth M. Kletzer
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Сognitive mechanisms of semantic adaptation of borrowings in Russian

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент
This paper investigates the semantic adaptation of new borrowings in Russian, addressing a gap in research on this topic. The relevance of the study stems from the ambiguous and often negative public perception of the increasing number of borrowings in ...
Vadim A. Belov, Valentina M. Belova
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EMPRUNTS LEXICAUX EN LOBIRI, LANGUE GUR DE CÔTE D’IVOIRE / LEXICAL BORROWINGS IN LOBIRI, A GUR LANGUAGE OF CÔTE D’IVOIRE / ÎMPRUMUTURI LEXICALE ÎN LOBIRI, LIMBA VOLTAICĂ DIN COSTA DE FILDEŞ [PDF]

open access: yesStudii si Cercetari Filologice: Seria Limbi Straine Aplicate, 2017
Language Contacts cause them to maintain or evolve through analogy and borrowing. The Lobiri (gur language Ivory Coast) shares its linguistic environment with local Ivorian languages such as teen; Koulango, Dioula ...It is also in contact with Indo ...
Sib Sié Justin
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Borrowing Constraints and the Tenure Choice of Young Households [PDF]

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In this paper we analyze the factors that affect the tenure choice of young adults, highlighting the impact of mortgage lender imposed borrowing constraints. The data set is a panel of youth age 20-33 for the years 1985-90.
Susan M. Wachter   +2 more
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