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Modeling lexical borrowability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Roeland van Hout  and
Pieter Muysken
Roeland van Hout
Affiliation:
Tilburg University
Pieter Muysken
Affiliation:
University of Amsterdam
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Abstract

In this article, we develop analytical techniques to determine borrowability – that is, the ease with which a lexical item or a category of lexical items can be borrowed. The analysis is based on two assumptions: (1) the distribution of items in both the host and donor language should be taken into account to explain why certain items are, and others are not, borrowed; (2) the borrowability of a lexical category may result from a set of (underlying) operative factors or constraints. Our analysis is applied to Spanish borrowings in Bolivian Quechua on the basis of a set of bilingual texts.

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Language Variation and Change , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 39 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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