Loanwords in the world's languages : a comparative handbook /
"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 o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Germany :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2009]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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"--Provided by publisher. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 1081 pages) : maps |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9783110218442 3110218445 1282714767 9781282714762 9786612714764 661271476X |