"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 …
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 …
The interaction of borrowing and word formation
The interaction of borrowing and word formation
The interaction of borrowing and word formation
Drawing on detailed case studies across a range of languages, including English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Polish, Czech, Russian, Lithuanian and Greek, this text examines the different factors that determine the outcome of the interaction between borrowing and word fo…