Types of loan: Matter and pattern
(2007)
Book Chapter
Sakel, J. (2007). Types of loan: Matter and pattern. In Y. Matras, & J. Sakel (Eds.), Grammatical Borrowing in Cross-Linguistic Perspective (15-30). Mouton de Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110199192.15
A central concern of contact linguistics has long been to categorize the ways in which elements are borrowed from one language into another. For this pur-pose Matras and Sakel (2004) introduced the terms matter (MAT) and pattern(PAT) in the questionn... Read More about Types of loan: Matter and pattern.