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Semantic Borrowing

Semantic borrowing is a linguistic phenomenon in historical semantics whereby a word acquires a new meaning under the influence of a semantically similar word in another language, distinguished from other types of semantic change by its cross-linguistic trigger.

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1.7K

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37

Authors

21

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2017–2026

5

Variants

Semantic Calque

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Publications

25

Borrowability and the notion of basic vocabulary

Uri Tadmor, Martín Haspelmath, Bradley Taylor · Diachronica · 2010 · 369 citations

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When lexemes become allomorphs - On the genesis of suppletion

Martin Maiden · Folia Linguistica · 2004 · 192 citations

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Lexical borrowing : Concepts and issues

Martín Haspelmath · Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics · 2009 · 179 citations · Full text

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BORROWING IN TANZANIAN NGONI LEXICON: SOME SEMANTIC TRENDS IN A LANGUAGE CONTACT SITUATION

Gastor Mapunda, Tove Rosendal · Language Matters · 2015 · 106 citations

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Semantic change in loan words

L. J. Louwrens · South African Journal of African Languages · 1993 · 102 citations

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Authors

37

  1. MH
    Martín Haspelmath

    Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany

    2 publications · 548 citations

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  2. AW
    Alicja Witalisz

    Uniwersytet Komisji Edukacji Narodowej w Krakowie, Poland

    1 publications · 15 citations

    1

    h-index

  3. AB
    Alessandro Bonanini

    University of Parma, Italy

    1 publications · 15 citations

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  4. UT
    Uri Tadmor

    Max Planck Society, Germany

    1 publications · 369 citations

    1

    h-index

  5. GC
    Gerd Carling

    Lund University, Sweden

    1 publications · 26 citations

    1

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Institutions

21

  1. Max Planck Society

    Munich, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

  2. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

    Leipzig, Germany

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    1.3K citations

  3. University of Gothenburg

    Gothenburg, Sweden

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    106 citations

  4. Tbilisi State University

    Tbilisi, Georgia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    26 citations

  5. Jagiellonian University

    Krakow, Poland

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  6. Virginia Commonwealth University

    Richmond, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    42 citations

  7. Jiangsu University

    Zhenjiang, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    36 citations

  8. University of Minnesota System

    Minneapolis, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    85 citations

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Venues

  1. Language

    2 publications · 104 citations

    2

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  2. Linguistics

    2 publications · 97 citations

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  3. Language Matters

    1 publications · 106 citations

    1

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  4. Anthropological linguistics

    1 publications · 31 citations

    1

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  5. South African Journal of African Languages

    1 publications · 102 citations

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