The causality of borrowing: Lexical loans in Eurasian languages.

All languages borrow words from other languages. Some languages are more prone to borrowing, while others borrow less, and different domains of the vocabulary are unequally susceptible to borrowing. Languages typically borrow words when a new concept is introduced, but languages may also borrow a ne...

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Main Authors: Gerd Carling, Sandra Cronhamn, Robert Farren, Elnur Aliyev, Johan Frid
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2019-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223588