Loanwords in the World's Languages

Loanwords in the World's Languages
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Total Pages : 1104
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ISBN-10 : 9783110218435
ISBN-13 : 3110218437
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Book Synopsis Loanwords in the World's Languages by : Martin Haspelmath

Download or read book Loanwords in the World's Languages written by Martin Haspelmath and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2009 with total page 1104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages." --Book Jacket.


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