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loans

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Loans is a concept within linguistic research, particularly sociolinguistics and historical linguistics, that investigates the phenomenon of adopting lexical items from one language into another. This field examines the mechanisms and motivations behind linguistic borrowing, the subsequent phonological, morphological, and semantic integration of these words into the recipient language's system, and their significance as evidence of language contact and cultural exchange between speech communities.

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AN

University of South Carolina

SO

University of Zurich

SA

National University of Singapore

IH

Bank of Finland

CM

University of Florida

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National Bureau of Economic Research

Cambridge, United States

Washington D.C., United States

New York University

New York, United States

Washington D.C., United States

University of Chicago

Chicago, United States