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Contact français-langues gabonaises et expression de la connivence
LengasThe article raises the question of decoloniality through the phenomena of borrowing, calquing, and linguistic interference between French, the dominant lingua franca, and other local languages in Gabon.
Jean-Aimé Pambou, Prisca Soumaho
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Emprunts, créations "sous influence" et équivalents [PDF]
, 2009 International audienceOutre un champ indiquant la matrice lexicogénique (interne ou externe pour les seuls vrais emprunts, directs ou adaptés) du néologisme d'une fiche de la base néologique Neologia, deux autres champs notent une éventuelle influence ...
Humbley, John +2 more
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Pidgin English proverbs as a source of structural nativization in Nigerian English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 166-183, March-June 2025.Abstract In this paper, we explore the role of Nigerian Pidgin English (NPE) proverbs in language contact settings and their impact on the development of idiomatic phraseology in Nigerian English (NgE). In a set of 100 NPE proverbs, we identified lexical keywords that served as anchors for searches in the large‐scale Nairaland corpus to detect ...
Marcus Callies, Folajimi Oyebola
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Russian borrowings in the Karakalpak language
Неофилология, 2020 The study is devoted to the issues of interinfluence of Russian and Karakalpak languages on a basis of borrowings by calquing. Borrowings of Russian words and word combinations by calquing specified as one of sources of enrichment of the lexicon of ...
N. S. Karimkhodjaev
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Lexical variation of woods and bush in Ontario English
World Englishes, Volume 44, Issue 1-2, Page 285-299, March-June 2025.Abstract This paper examines ongoing lexical variability among words that describe areas with trees, such as woods, bush and forest, among others. The historical perspective shows ongoing semantic evolution of these terms, from wood(s) (c.825) to the emergence of bush in the late 16th century or early 17th century.
Sali A. Tagliamonte +1 more
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Linguistic Relativity and Linguistic Determinism: Idiom in 20th Century Cornish [PDF]
It has been understood for decades that language and thought are closely related. If one accepts that the thoughts that we construct are based upon the language that we speak and the words that we use, then it follows that the language that we ...
Mills, Jon
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The sociolinguistic situation of the British and the US American communities in Spain [PDF]
, 1998 This report is concerned with the sociolinguistic situation of the British and US American communities living in Spain. The data used to compile it were drawn from speech data collected during the course of a project financed by the Spanish Comisión ...
Turell i Julià, M. Teresa
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Philippine Englishes in the Sino‐Philippine Lannang context
World Englishes, Volume 43, Issue 4, Page 588-606, December 2024.Abstract This article explores the relationship between Philippine English and the Lannangs, individuals with Filipino and Southern Chinese cultural heritage. It highlights the multifaceted nature of this English variety by discussing how it interacts with non‐English languages in contemporary Lannang communities located in Manila, Iloilo and Cebu ...
Wilkinson Daniel Wong Gonzales
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LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN CONTACT: THE FRENCH LANGUAGE A ND THE MARITIME TERMINOLOGY [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2014 The lexical borrowing is a fertile area of research, because it involves the contact between linguistic systems, cultures and spiritual identities. Through this work we try to demonstrate, using linguistic and statistical arguments , that the French ...
Corina SANDIUC
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LA MODERNISATION LATINO-ROMANE DU LEXIQUE ROUMAIN. LE MODÈLE INTERNE [PDF]
Diversitate si Identitate Culturala in Europa, 2016 Latin Romance modernization of the Romanian literary vocabulary was attained, at the end of the 18th century, primarily by lexical borrowing and by calque.
Gheorghe CHIVU
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