Etymological Routes: Some Supplementary Remarks.

Offord, Malcolm

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ERIC Number: EJ613114

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1999

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Etymological Routes: Some Supplementary Remarks.

Offord, Malcolm

Current Issues in Language and Society, v6 n3-4 p263-69 1999

Discusses the etymological routes, the borrowing process, that allows words from language B to enter language A. Uses metaphorical language to describe the ways in which words are taken from one language and used in another. (Author/VWL)

Descriptors: Etymology, French, Language Standardization, Linguistic Borrowing, Metaphors

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue: French: An Accommodating Language?