Loanwords in the World's Languages

Author: Martin Haspelmath (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig) , Uri Tadmor
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
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9781282714762

Pages: 1081
Publication Date: 12 December 2009
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This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed from other languages. The authors have assembled a unique database of over 70,000 words from 40 languages from around the world, 18,000 of which are loanwords. This database (http: //loanwords.info) allows the authors to make empirically founded generalizations about general tendencies of word exchange among languages

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