Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
The article argues that lexical borrowing is not only motivated by cultural factors linked to prestige or economical aspects but also by the speakers’ need for new lexical-semantic categories and for highly expressive metaphorical terms to operate with, which makes them borrow words. The semantic ch...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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2017-12-01
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| Series: | Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028 |