Loanwords in the World's Languages : a Comparative Handbook.

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This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of whic...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Haspelmath, Martin
Otros Autores: Tadmor, Uri
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2009.
Temas:
Language and languages > Foreign words and phrases.
Language and languages > Foreign elements.
Emprunts (Linguistique)
Language and languages > Foreign elements
Language and languages > Foreign words and phrases
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database (http://loanwords.info) allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (1103 pages)
ISBN:9783110218442
3110218445

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