Modeling Lexical Borrowability.

van Hout, Roeland; Muysken, Pieter

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Publication Date: 1994

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Modeling Lexical Borrowability.

van Hout, Roeland; Muysken, Pieter

Language Variation and Change, v6 n1 p39-62 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, Language Research, Language Usage, Linguistic Borrowing, Models, Quechua, Sociolinguistics, Spanish, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Word Frequency

Publication Type: Reports - Research; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Bolivia

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