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nonce borrowing: a standalone construct

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Language contact

a single-word switch that is integrated into the recipient language's morphology and syntax but is used only occasionally, not yet widespread in the community.

In language contact, nonce borrowing refers to a single-word switch that is integrated into the recipient language's morphology and syntax but is used only occasionally, not yet widespread in the community. This meaning comes from Poplack (1988) in Linguistics.[1]

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community5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs contact2 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs morphology4 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

References

Poplack, S., Sankoff, D., & Miller, C. (1988). The social correlates and linguistic processes of lexical borrowing and assimilation. Linguistics, 26(1). https://doi.org/10.1515/ling.1988.26.1.47

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