Linguistic borrowing in bilingual contexts
Auteur :
Field, Fredric W.
Éditeur :
Field, Fredric W.
ISBN :
9789027230652
Date de publication :
30 sept. 2002
Dimensions :
22,5 x 15,4 cm
Poids :
475 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Bonaire, Saba
This work examines critically a number of claims that have been made about hierarchies of borrowability and proposes a particular constraint on borrowability that relates to an empirically ascertainable property of the borrowing language.