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Lexical Borrowing in Spoken Lukabaras in a Multilingual Context [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigated the borrowing of lexical items into spoken Lukabaras due to the influence of Nandi language in a multilingual setting. The data was collected in Chepsaita Scheme in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya.
Alati, ,. (, Reginald Atichi )   +2 more
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The Impact of English on Other Languages and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article explores the implications of English's role as a global lingua franca for other languages, with a particular focus on the transformations these languages undergo due to English influence. Such changes are most evident in the lexical domain, where they are typically examined under the framework of lexical borrowing or Anglicisms ...
Sabine Fiedler
wiley   +1 more source

Borrowing as the means of enriching vocabulary

open access: yes, 2013
Стаття присвячена проблемам запозичення різнних мовних одиниць, зокрема лексичного запозичення. Подаються та аналізуються різні визначення даного лінгвістичного терміна.The article deals with the problems of linguistic borrowing, its main reasons and ...
Есенова, Еріка Йосипівна
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The influence of English on lexical borrowing in the Kelantan Malay dialect / Wan Afiqah Anis Wan Ahmad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The main aim of this research is to investigate the lexical borrowing of the Kelantan Malay dialect that have been influenced by the English language. The objectives of the study were to identify the Kelantan Malay words that have been borrowed from the ...
Wan Ahmad, Wan Afiqah Anis
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Introduction to the Special Issue on English Worldwide and Linguistic Justice

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Three decades after Kachru's characterization of English as a source of both “agony and ecstasy,” debates about its global spread remain ambivalent. Despite significant advances in world Englishes scholarship, celebratory and critical stances toward English continue to coexist, sharpened by the political polarization of our times, and renewed ...
Josep Soler
wiley   +1 more source

The Indian English Complaint Tradition: ‘Old Chestnuts’ and New Perspectives

open access: yesWorld Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT English usage in India has been the target of a linguistic complaint tradition ‘which has taken the form of complaint about so‐called mis‐use of language and linguistic decline’ since the 19th century. The Indian English (IndE) complaint tradition in the 21st century has shifted from colonial to postcolonial in that IndE usage is now targeted ...
Claudia Lange, Sven Leuckert
wiley   +1 more source

Medical Archaeology and the Research Roads of Global Health in the Age of Eugenics

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 128, Issue 4, Page 826-847, December 2026.
ABSTRACT This article centers on an underexplored dimension of archaeology—the role of medicine and medical doctors in the ways archaeological excavations connected at times with early global health research and infrastructures. Its case studies focus on archaeology's role in the institutional networks, research routes, and racialized pathologies that ...
Franco D. Rossi
wiley   +1 more source

Herder in the lab: Maximizing “cultural density” in multilingual training data for an open‐science AI project

open access: yesJournal of Linguistic Anthropology, Volume 36, Issue 3, December 2026.
Abstract This paper provides ethnographic analysis of interactions between volunteers in an open‐science AI project entrusted with preparing multilingual text for use in fine‐tuning a pretrained LLM. Volunteers were encouraged to entextualize translated text into structured corpora and to write and edit prompt‐completion pairings in over 100 languages.
Joseph Wilson
wiley   +1 more source

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