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Lexical Borrowing Targets Spans
Languages, 2022 In this study, I revisit the claim that nominals denoting complex events must derive from discernible verbal stems and must be headed by an overt nominalizer.
Deniz Tat
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Cross-Dialectal Novel Word Learning and Borrowing [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The objective of this paper was to study the cognitive processes underlying cross-dialectal novel word borrowing and loanword establishment in a Standard-Chinese-to-Shanghainese (SC-SH) auditory lexical learning and borrowing experiment.
Junru Wu +5 more
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Ampersand, 2019 The use of loanwords is not merely a lexical act (filling a lexical gap in a given language, or using a shorter word in place of a longer expression) but also a socially meaningful one – a contextual expression of self, social identity and language ...
Laura Rosseel, Eline Zenner
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THE LEXICAL PROCESS OF ACEHNESE BORROWING
Getsempena English Education Journal, 2017 The aims of this study were to analyze the process of lexical borrowing in Acehnese. The subjects of the study were 30 textbooks in Acehnese language of Language Centre of Aceh.
Budi Rizka
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Lexical Borrowing in Malaysian English: Influences of Malay
Lexis: Journal in English Lexicology, 2009 During its evolution in the region that is today Malaysia, English has come into contact with a range of diverse, typologically-distinct languages.
Siew Imm Tan
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ILexical Borrowing Hierarchies in Kolhari Kurdish: Gender, Age and Educational Background [PDF]
نشریه پژوهشهای زبانشناسی, 2020 : This study is intended to investigate lexical borrowing in Kalhori Kurdish. The main lexical categories such as nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs were examined to find whether native speakers prefer to use native words or loan words (of Farsi ...
Shahram Jamali Nesari, Habib Gowhary
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Modeling lexical borrowability [PDF]
Language Variation and Change, 1994 ABSTRACTIn this article, we develop analytical techniques to determine borrowability – that is, the ease with which a lexical item or a category of lexical items can be borrowed. The analysis is based on two assumptions: (1) the distribution of items in both the host and donor language should be taken into account to explain why certain items are, and ...
Muysken, P.C., van Hout, R.W.N.M.
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Recherches & Travaux, 2021 This paper deals with how the list of technical words or Rhetorics goes from Greek to Latin, first, then from Latin to French. The psycholinguistic processes involved are well known: lexical borrowing, calque, semantic borrowing.
Christian Nicolas
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Open Research Europe, 2022 Although lexical borrowing is an important aspect of language evolution, there have been few attempts to automate the identification of borrowings in lexical datasets.
Robert Forkel, Johann-Mattis List
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The language contact phenomenon in Thailand: English borrowing, comprehension, and public attitudes
Studies in English Language and Education, 2023 As the English lexicon has become more frequently borrowed and used in Thai mass media and social media, Thais are quickly adapting to such foreignness and are open to language contact-induced change. The current study explores the extent of the public’s
Wararat Whanchit, Nootchanat Sukkaew
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