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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-

Tadmor, Uri, 1960-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language and languages--Foreign words and phrases.

Language and languages.

Language and languages--Foreign elements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1103 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Mouton de Gruyter, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000 words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published online at the same time as the book is published. For each word, information about loanword status is given in the database, and the 40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of borrowing situations.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of contents

General chapters

I. The Loanword Typology project and the World Loanword Database / Haspelmath, Martin / Tadmor, Uri

II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues / Haspelmath, Martin

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

The languages

1. Loanwords in Swahili / Schadeberg, Thilo C.

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Loanwords in Romanian / Schulte, Kim

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

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

11. Loanwords in Old High German / Schuhmann, Roland

12. Loanwords in Dutch / van der Sijs, Nicoline

13. Loanwords in British English / Grant, Anthony P.

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

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

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

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

18. Loanwords in Ket / Vajda, Edward J.

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

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

21. Loanwords in Japanese / Schmidt, Christopher K.

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

23. Loanwords in Thai / Suthiwan, Titima / Tadmor, Uri

24. Loanwords in Vietnamese / Alves, Mark J.

25. Loanwords in White Hmong / Ratliff, Martha

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

27. Loanwords in Indonesian / Tadmor, Uri

28. Loanwords in Malagasy / Adelaar, Alexander

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

30. Loanwords in Hawaiian / Parker Jones, 'Ōiwi

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Backmatter

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612714764

9781282714762

1282714767

9783110218442

3110218445

OCLC:

635290441