Measuring and comparing the use and success of loanwords in Portugal and Brazil: A corpus-based and concept-based sociolectometrical approach

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction: Onomasiological, methodological and phraseological perspectives on lexical borrowing 1
4. A usage-based approach to borrowability 19
5. What makes a catchphrase catchy? Possible determinants in the borrowability of English catchphrases in Dutch 41
6. Formal variance and semantic changes in borrowing: Integrating semasiology and onomasiology 65
7. Measuring and comparing the use and success of loanwords in Portugal and Brazil: A corpus-based and concept-based sociolectometrical approach 101
8. Comparing the usage of Māori loans in spoken and written New Zealand English: A case study of Maori, Pakeha, and Kiwi 143
9. English loanwords and their counterparts in Dutch job advertisements: An experimental study in association overlap 171
10. On the variation of gender in nominal language mixings 191
11. Linguistic globalization: Experiences from the Nordic laboratory 225
12. Index 251