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Using lexical language models to detect borrowings in monolingual wordlists.
PLoS ONE, 2020 Lexical borrowing, the transfer of words from one language to another, is one of the most frequent processes in language evolution. In order to detect borrowings, linguists make use of various strategies, combining evidence from various sources.
John E Miller +5 more
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Cutting freedom down to size Liberté calibrée
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Freedom, as a concept and a value, presents limited prospects for anthropological comparison. The study of enslavement, much neglected in attempts to develop an anthropology of freedom, shows that freedom has been imagined by the enslaved as the opposite of their condition only under particular circumstances.
Harri Englund
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COLOUR-BASED ANGLICISMS IN THE SERBIAN LANGUAGE
FilologEnglish as the dominant language of global communication has a significant influence on the Serbian language through the process of lexical borrowing. This study focuses on the phenomenon of lexical borrowing from English, examining lexemes containing ...
Jasmina M. Miljković +1 more
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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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Indirect evidentiality and the expression of the speaker’s stance in Romanian
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis, 2023 The study aims to emphasize how lexical particles and grammatical constructions express indirect evidentiality and the speaker’s stance in Romanian.
Cecilia Mihaela Popescu
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article studies Indian‐Bangladeshi friendship ethnographically, as a contested political imaginary, claim, and relation, from the vantage of its shared borderlands. Staging friendship, I show, is a geopolitical project that engages equally the highest echelons of the Indian and Bangladeshi states and ordinary residents of its marginalized ...
Sahana Ghosh
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Zapożyczenia w tekstach specjalistycznych – klasyfikacja i problemy teoretyczne
Polilog: Studia Neofilologiczne, 2017 Borrowing in texts for special purposes – classification and theoretical problems This paper discusses the issue of borrowing in texts for special purposes, Foreign elements in LSP texts are classified into terminological loanwords, non-terminological ...
Mariusz Górnicz
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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On the Morphology of Toponyms: What Greek Inflectional Paradigms Can Teach us
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 77-96, March 2025.Abstract The research is a contribution to the investigation of the grammatical status of toponyms from the point of view of inflectional paradigmatic morphology. By examining data from Standard Modern Greek, as well as select data from its historical development, the analysis reveals that the inflectional morphology of toponyms shows significant ...
Michail I. Marinis
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Lexical borrowing by Khoekhoegowab from Cape Dutch and Afrikaans
Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, 2015 The present article instantiates types of lexical borrowing from Afrikaans and Dutch in Namibian Khoekhoegowab (also known as “Nama”/“Damara”), but occasionally also refers to borrowings in the opposite direction.
Wilfrid Haacke
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