"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to …
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to …
"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to …
The interaction of borrowing and word formation
Das Buch untersucht Vokalepenthese unter dem Gesichtspunkt, welcher Vokal eingefügt wird. Lehnwortkorpora des Shona, Sranan, Samoanischen und Kinyarwanda werden statistisch analysiert, und die Ergebnisse optimalitätstheoretisch modelliert. Alle untersuchten Sprachen zeigen eine …
This volume studies how speakers deal with loanwords from foreign languages. Are foreign words adapted in pronunciation, writing, flexion and syntax to the recipient language or do they keep characteristics of the language of their origin? Do loan units change the system of the …
Loan phonology
by Wetzels, Leo, Calabrese, Andrea
fromCurrent issues in linguistic theory