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Lexical and Grammatical Borrowings in Raji

Gipan, 2022
When languages have a relatively small number of speakers and live along with the speakers of dominant languages, there is a gradual shrinkage in their vocabulary, and grammatical patterns. This study is mainly based on the wordlist and texts initially gathered for the primary documentation of Raji in 2018.
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Core Lexical Borrowing

1991
Abstract In his by now classic survey of the linguistic: consequences of language contact, Weinreich (1968: 56-61) proposed several reasons for lexical borrowing, the most universal, according to him, being the need to designate cultural novelties, that is, items peculiar to another culture and therefore for which the recipient language ...
Raymond Mougeon, Édouard Beniak
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Lexical Borrow Ability

1999
Abstract Lexical borrowability refers to the ease with which a word or a category of words can be borrowed (van Hout and Muysken 1994:39). Over a century ago William Dwight Whitney (1881) proposed a hierarchy of categories based on borrowability, in which nouns are observed to be most readily borrowed, followed by other parts of speech ...
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The Tradition of Lexical Borrowing

Golden scripts
This article is devoted to the improvement of the vocabulary of the Turkic languages, including the Uzbek literary language, by replacing words from other languages with external sources. The article also examines the tradition of appropriating words, what should be paid attention to in this case, taking into account the specifics of the Uzbek language
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New Perspectives on Lexical Borrowing

2013
Introduction: Onomasiological, methodological and phraseological perspectives on lexical borrowing / Eline Zenner and Gitte Kristiansen -- A usage-based approach to borrowability / Ad Backus -- What makes a catchphrase catchy? : possible determinants in the borrowability of English catchphrases in Dutch / Eline Zenner, Dirk Speelman and Dirk Geeraerts -
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Lexical borrowing and variation

2021
Pedro Martín-Butragueño, Nadiezdha Torres-Sánchez   +1 more
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The Lexical Basis of Grammatical Borrowing

2000
This book is a detailed study of French-English linguistic borrowing in Prince Edward Island, Canada which argues for the centrality of lexical innovation to grammatical change. Chapters 1–4 present the theoretical and methodological perspectives adopted along with the sociolinguistic history of Acadian French.
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Lexical Expansion, Borrowing, and Change

1992
Abstract In Chapter 2 I noted Miihlhausler’s claim that the lexicon of Tok Pisin was still impoverished up to the time of World War I. He suggests that it had a vocabulary of around 750-1,000 words, while others like Clark (1987) and Crowley (1990) believe that Melanesian Pidgin had already expanded to 1,000 words in the 1880s.
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Lexical Borrowing in Nigerian English

2019
The study looked at the extent to which English language is transformed in the Nigerian society. The paper has been restricted to lexical variation of such ‘Nigerianness’ with particular reference to loanwords and Loanshift and English words whose meaning has been restricted.
Moyi, Muddasir Ismaila, Egu, Francis Attah   +1 more
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Relating Lexical Borrowing and Codeswitching

1993
Abstract This chapter deals with the relationship between lexical borrowing and codeswitching (CS), concentrating on the two as processes but also considering their outcomes. The general argument is that singly occurring forms originating with the EL, whether CS or borrowed forms (hereafter B forms), are part of the same developmental ...
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