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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Main Author:	Benő Attila
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Sciendo 2017-12-01
Series:	Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
Subjects:	word borrowing lexical categorization semantic change representation lexical codability
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028

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spelling	doaj-9c9a59a5ee554269a43dc39ee0ec16c12021-09-06T19:40:21ZengSciendoActa Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica2391-81792017-12-0193536110.1515/ausp-2017-0028ausp-2017-0028Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental RepresentationBenő Attila0Babeş–Bolyai University, Faculty of Letters, Hungarian and General Linguistics DepartmentThe 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 changes of the lexical borrowings point to the creation of new items in the semantic fields of the receiving language. The integration of borrowings into Hungarian and Romanian exemplifies these processes.https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028word borrowinglexical categorizationsemantic changerepresentationlexical codability
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title	Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
title_short	Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
title_full	Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
title_fullStr	Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
title_full_unstemmed	Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation
title_sort	lexical borrowing, categorization, and mental representation
publisher	Sciendo
series	Acta Universitatis Sapientiae: Philologica
issn	2391-8179
publishDate	2017-12-01
description	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 changes of the lexical borrowings point to the creation of new items in the semantic fields of the receiving language. The integration of borrowings into Hungarian and Romanian exemplifies these processes.
topic	word borrowing lexical categorization semantic change representation lexical codability
url	https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028
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Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation

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