Loanwords in the World's Languages
A Comparative Handbook
This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the proje…
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Weitere Autoren: Tadmor, Uri (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-11-021843-5
- EAN: 9783110218435
- Produktnummer: 5303463
- Verlag: De Gruyter Mouton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 1104 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B17.5 cm x D6.4 cm 2'009 g
- Abbildungen: HC runder Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 2009
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Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
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