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van Hout, Roeland; Muysken, Pieter – Language Variation and Change, 1994
Develops analytical techniques to determine "borrowability," the ease with which a lexical item or category of lexical items can be borrowed by one language from another. These techniques are then applied to Spanish borrowings in Bolivian Quechua on the basis of a set of bilingual texts. (29 references) (MDM)
Descriptors: Databases, Descriptive Linguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Patterns