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Download full textPavlou, Pavlos Y. – 1993
This paper examines the Turkish origins of a number of Cypriot-Greek words, explaining how some of these words have undergone a semantic shift. Words of Turkish origin can be divided into three classes: (1) culturally borrowed, those words that introduced a new concept into Cypriot-Greek and have no purely Greek equivalent; (2) doublets, those…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Descriptive Linguistics, Diachronic Linguistics, Dialects
