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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"lexical borrowing"”.
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EXPLORING THE ANCESTRAL ROOTS OF AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE: LEXICAL BORROWING FROM CISTERCIAN SIGN LANGUAGE AND FRENCH SIGN LANGUAGE
… similar phonologically and semantically related lexical items are found in LSF and ASL; (B) to determine if any of the CSL, LSF and ASL phonologically and semantically related lexical items are related simply because they are iconic forms; and (C) to determine if any of the CSL, LSF and ASL …
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A study of lexical borrowing and occasional code-switching amongst young middle-class Syrians in Saudi Arabia and Syria
… contact as reflected in code-switching and lexical borrowing. I conducted 20 interviews in the summer of 2008 in Syria. Both groups included an equal number of male and female participants. All interviews were conducted in friendly congenial settings which allowed participants to converse …
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Selected aspects of language contact in the case of Czech, with a particular focus on lexical borrowing and changing attitudes to the self and others
… limitations of Czech purism’ and Attitudes to lexical borrowing in the Czech Republic), and a detailed article on the implications of naming practices for perceptions of the self and others (‘The Czech-speaking lands, their peoples and contact communities: titles, names and ethnonyms’). …
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Lexical Borrowings as Sociolinguistic Variables in Saint -Louis, Senegal
… that there are strong relationships between lexical borrowings and age groups in multilingual communities, and that linguistic processes that go along with lexical borrowings also follow the same pattern. Finally, this study contributes to our understanding of how linguistic, cultural, …
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Quichua-Spanish language contact in Salcedo, Ecuador: revisiting media lengua syncretic language practices
… Ecuador is the quantity of the overall Spanish borrowings and not the type of processes that might have been employed by Quichua speakers during the genesis of Media Lengua. The results from the Salcedo data that I have collected show how processes such as adlexification, code-mixing, and …
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The difference between rural and urban Xhosa varieties: A sociolinguistic study
… as language variety, culture, speech community, lexical borrowing, terminology and language standardization are dealt with insofar as they relate specifically to language use and language change. For purposes of the thesis, some parameters are set in terms of which the difference between rural …
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Eish - when to use -ish-: a study in the verbalization of English lexical items in spoken Xhosa
… and applicability to current scholarship on lexical borrowing. To ensure a wide range of data sources I used a corpus derived from interviews with 30 Xhosa speakers in Cape Town, as well as from three media sources: the first is a 1-hour long talk radio programme transcribed from the national …
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新加坡华语中的方言词融合程度 = INTEGRATION OF DIALECT WORDS IN SINGAPORE MANDARIN
… Mandarin. By using the methods of determining lexical integration as proposed by Hasselmo (1969), Mackey (1970) and Poplack & Sankoff (1984), this paper attempts to divide the dialect word integration into five levels and gives possible reasons behind such difference in integration. Through the …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… contact phenomena including bilingualism, lexical borrowing and substratum transfer may have influenced the form and development of such name-types. I have concluded that differing types of linguistic contact, occurring both in primary and secondary settlement areas, may account for the …
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Language contact in two border communities in Burkina Faso and Ghana. Lexical borrowings from French, English and African languages
… I investigate motivations for, and patterns of, lexical borrowing among Dagara-French and Dagara-English bilingual speakers as a function of age, sex, mobility, and degree of education in a multilingual border community where English and French are official state languages and Dagara is the …
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New senses and formations in Old English glosses and translations, with particular reference to the psalter and the gospels
… thesis raises questions about the nature of the lexical items which are conventionally known as ‘semantic loans’ and ‘loan formations’. They are treated in previous studies as results of language contact and discussed as subtypes of loans. The present study will provide an alternative account for …
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Dynamics of prescriptivism and lexical borrowings in Contemporary French
… the actual use of these top-down lexical innovations remains to be established. Using examples from newspaper and social media corpora, this study investigates how speakers comply with the use of prescribed French terminology, including emblematic lexical innovations such as …