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Jaina Monks Seen in Folk-etymology
Moriichi YAMAZAKI
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"Whet" to "Wet": A Note on Folk Etymology
Duncan Emrich
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Hispanic place names of Uruguay in the context of linguopragmatics
The article contributes to the identification and linguistic analysis of the Hispanic toponymic units of Uruguay, and presents the first attempt to classify them.
Irina Martynenko
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Le nom du souverain dans les parlers « kotoko » du Cameroun
The so-called “Kotoko” group is located mainly in the far north of Cameroon, and marginally in Chad and Nigeria. It is composed of small fortified kingdoms built primarily in the West of the Lower Chari and the Lower Logone.
Henry Tourneux
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Confessional Model of Image of Person in Text of Old Believer Popular Print “Two roads — Two ways”
The article is devoted to the analysis of the confessional model of the image of a person in the popular prints of Old Believers-chapels of the Yenisei “Two Roads — Two Ways”.
E. V. Bykova, О. M. Valova
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Von der Primär- zur Sekundärmotivation. Der semantische Sprung bei Volksetymologie und Verballhornung [PDF]
The historical loss of motivation causes many compound words to become arbitrary like simple words or to become only partly motivated. This situation doesn’t please the language community. People search for a new morphological and semantic integration of
Winfried Ulrich
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FUNCTIONAL AND SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION OF THE PARONYMIC ATTRACTION
This article analyses the phenomenon of paronomasia in modern French and describes the typology of paronymic constructions. The phenomenon of paronymic attraction is defined as a special lexical phenomenon of intentional convergence of similar lexical ...
Varvara A. Chaplik
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O sposobach tworzenia nazw miejscowości w świetle etymologii ludowej
On creation of place names in the light of folk etymology The paper discusses the ways in which Polish place names were created, in the light of their folk etymologies.
Ewa Rogowska-Cybulska
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The wolf in sheep's clothing: Camouflaged borrowing in Modern German [PDF]
This article addresses a phenomenon of language contact that has not received much attention in mainstream contact linguistics, namely borrowing via a mechanism Zuckermann (2003) calls MULTISOURCED NEOLOGISATION.
Busse Ulrich +7 more
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