Loanwords in the World's Languages: A Comparative Handbook

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Loanwords in the World's Languages

A Comparative Handbook

Edited by: Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2009

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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 project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail.

The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.

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Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.

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Frontmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	i
Table of contents Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
General chapters
I. The Loanword Typology project and the World Loanword Database Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues Martin Haspelmath Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
III. Loanwords in the world’s languages: Findings and results Uri Tadmor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
The languages
1. Loanwords in Swahili Thilo C. Schadeberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
2. Loanwords in Iraqw, a Cushitic language of Tanzania Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
3. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia Mauro Tosco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
4. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West Africa Ari Awagana, H. Ekkehard Wolff and Doris Löhr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	142
5. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language Doris Löhr, H. Ekkehard Wolff and Ari Awagana Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
6. Loanwords in Tarifiyt, a Berber language of Morocco Maarten Kossmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
7. Loanwords in Seychelles Creole Susanne Michaelis and Marcel Rosalie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
8. Loanwords in Romanian Kim Schulte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
9. Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia Viktor Elšík Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	260
10. Loanwords in Lower Sorbian, a Slavic language of Germany Hauke Bartels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
11. Loanwords in Old High German Roland Schuhmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
12. Loanwords in Dutch Nicoline van der Sijs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
13. Loanwords in British English Anthony P. Grant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	360
14. Loanwords in Kildin Saami, a Uralic language of northern Europe Michael Rießler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
15. Loanwords in Bezhta, a Nakh-Daghestanian language of the North Caucasus Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	414
16. Loanwords in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian language of the North Caucasus Marina Chumakina Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	430
17. Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman Language of Nepal Kristine A. Hildebrandt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	447
18. Loanwords in Ket Edward J. Vajda Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	471
19. Loanwords in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language of Siberia Brigitte Pakendorf and Innokentij N. Novgorodov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	496
20. Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	525
21. Loanwords in Japanese Christopher K. Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	545
22. Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese Thekla Wiebusch and Uri Tadmor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	575
23. Loanwords in Thai Titima Suthiwan and Uri Tadmor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	599
24. Loanwords in Vietnamese Mark J. Alves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	617
25. Loanwords in White Hmong Martha Ratliff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	638
26. Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia Nicole Kruspe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	659
27. Loanwords in Indonesian Uri Tadmor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	686
28. Loanwords in Malagasy Alexander Adelaar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	717
29. Loanwords in Takia, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea Malcolm Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	747
30. Loanwords in Hawaiian ‘Ōiwi Parker Jones Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	771
31. Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia Patrick McConvell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	790
32. Loanwords in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico Zarina Estrada Fernández Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	823
33. Loanwords in Zinacantán Tzotzil, a Mayan language of Mexico Cecil H. Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	848
34. Loanwords in Q’eqchi’, a Mayan language of Guatemala Søren Wichmann and Kerry Hull Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	873
35. Loanwords in Otomi, an Otomanguean language of Mexico Ewald Hekking and Dik Bakker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	897
36. Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based creole of Suriname Jeff Good Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	918
37. Loanwords in Imbabura Quechua Jorge Gómez Rendón and Willem Adelaar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	944
38. Loanwords in Kali’na, a Cariban language of French Guiana Odile Renault-Lescure Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	968
39. Loanwords in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia Patience Epps Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	992
40. Loanwords in Wichí, a Mataco-Mataguayan language of Argentina Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1015
41. Loanwords in Mapudungun, a language of Chile and Argentina Lucía A. Golluscio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1035
Backmatter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1072

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eBook published on:

December 22, 2009

eBook ISBN:

9783110218442

Hardcover published on:

December 15, 2009

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110218435

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Front matter:

21

Main content:

1081

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110218442

eBook ISBN: 9783110218442

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110218435

Keywords for this book

Historical Linguistics; Language Change; Lexicology

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University Libraries, Linguists, Teachers and Language Policy Makers, Non-Academic Institutions

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