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Author Haspelmath, Martin

Title Loanwords in the World's Languages : a Comparative Handbook
Published Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (1103 pages)
Contents Frontmatter; Table of contents; General chapters; The languages; Backmatter
Summary 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
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Subject Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases.
Language and languages -- Foreign elements.
Language and languages -- Foreign elements
Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases
Form Electronic book
Author Tadmor, Uri
ISBN 9783110218442
3110218445