Borrowing

Treffers-Daller, Jeanine

Abstract

This article offers an overview of qualitative and quantitative approaches to borrowing (the incorporation of features of one language into another). The focus is on the integration of borrowed words into recipient languages, and on sociolinguistic, phonetic and pragmatic aspects of borrowing is offered, and a wide range of examples from different language pairs are given.

• Publication Date: Nov 1, 2010
• Deposit Date: Sep 17, 2010
• Publicly Available Date: Sep 24, 2016
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: Variat
• Book Title: Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights 6
• ISBN: 9789027207838
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/974059
• Publisher URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=HoPH%206
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• Contract Date: Sep 24, 2016