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borrow: a standalone construct

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borrow1 CONSTRUCTBorrowing (loanword)HAUGEN · LOANWORD

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Linguistics

Taking a word from another language

In linguistics, borrowing is the adoption of a feature, most visibly a word, from one language into another, producing loanwords that are then adapted to the borrowing language's sounds and grammar. Haugen's 1950 The analysis of linguistic borrowing set out the classic typology, distinguishing outright loanwords from loanblends and loanshifts and describing how imported material is phonologically remodelled. The referent is the transfer and nativisation of linguistic material across languages, traced through contact history, and it shares only the word with a breaking putt or a column subtraction.[1]

Unit
A linguistic feature transferred and adapted from one language into another
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Traced through loanword inventories, degree of phonological adaptation, and contact history

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slice2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructslie2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsadoption3 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Haugen, E. (1950). The analysis of linguistic borrowing. Language, 26(2), 210–231. https://doi.org/10.2307/410058

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