Loanwords in the world's languages : a comparative handbook / edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-

Tadmor, Uri, 1960-

Walter de Gruyter & Co.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Foreign words and phrases.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 1081 pages) : maps

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : De Gruyter Mouton, [2009]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Notational conventions

Acknowledgments

List of authors

General chapters: I. The loanword typology project and the world loanword database / Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor

II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues / Martin Haspelmath

III. Loanwords in the world's languages: Findings and results / Uri Tadmor

THE LANGUAGES: 1. Loanwords in Swahili / Thilo C. Schadeberg

2. Loanwords in Iraqw, a Cushitic language of Tanzania / Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro

3. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia / Mauro Tosco

4. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West Africa / Ari Awagana and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Doris Löhr

5. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language / Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Ari Awagana

6. Loanwords in Tarifiyt, a Berber language of Morocco / Maarten Kossmann

7. Loanwords in Seychelles Creole / Susanne Michaelis with Marcel Rosalie

8. Loanwords in Romanian / Kim Schulte

9. Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia / Viktor Elšík

10. Loanwords in Lower Sorbian, a Slavic language of Germany / Hauke Bartels

11. Loanwords in Old High German / Roland Schuhmann

12. Loanwords in Dutch / Nicoline van der Sijs

13. Loanwords in British English / Anthony Grant

14. Loanwords in Kildin Saami, a Uralic language of northern Europe / Michael Riessler

15. Loanwords in Bezhta, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov

16. Loanwords in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Marina Chumakina

17. Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal / Kristine A. Hildebrandt

18. Loanwords in Ket, a Yeniseian language of Siberia / Edward Vajda

19. Loanwords in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language of Siberia / Brigitte Pakendorf and Innokentij N. Novgorodov

20. Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China / Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley.

Loanwords in Japanese / Christopher K. Schmidt

22. Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese / Thekla Wiebusch and Uri Tadmor

23. Loanwords in Thai / Titima Suthiwan and Uri Tadmor

24. Loanwords in Vietnamese / Mark J. Alves

25. Loanwords in White Hmong / Martha Ratliff

26. Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia / Nicole Kruspe

27. Loanwords in Indonesian / Uri Tadmor

28. Loanwords in Malagasy / Alexander Adelaar

29. Loanwords in Takia, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea / Malcolm Ross

30. Loanwords in Hawaiian / 'Ōiwi Parker Jones

31. Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia / Patrick McConvell

32. Loanwords in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico / Zarina Estrada Fernández

33. Loanwords in Zinacantán Tzotzil, a Mayan language of Mexico / Cecil H. Brown

34. Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala / Søren Wichmann and Kerry Hull

35. Loanwords in Otomi, an Otomanguean language of Mexico / Ewald Hekking and Dik Bakker

36. Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based creole of Suriname / Jeff Good

37. Loanwords in Imbabura Quechua / Jorge Gómez Rendón and Willem Adelaar

38. Loanwords in Kali'na, a Cariban language of French Guiana / Odile Renault-Lescure

39. Loanwords in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia / Patience Epps

40. Loanwords in Wichí, a Mataco-Mataguayan language of Argentina / Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian

41. Loanwords in Mapudungun, a language of Chile and Argentina / Lucía A. Golluscio.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9783110218442

3110218445

Publisher Number:

99966913685

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.