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New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras: The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los

New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras: The impact of cultured borrowing on the languages of Western Europe / El impacto de los

Pountain, Christopher
Wislocka Breit, Bozena

Hardcover

LexicographyLinguistics

ISBN10: 1648891934
ISBN13: 9781648891939
Publisher: Vernon Press
Published: May 17 2021
Pages: 306
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

New worlds for old words / Mundos nuevos para viejas palabras is a collection of chapters on the theme of lexical borrowing in the languages of Western Europe with particular focus on borrowing from Latin, or from Greek via Latin, into Spanish. Such cultured, or learnèd borrowing-as it has sometimes been designated-, is an especially intriguing feature of the Romance languages, since they also derive from Latin. It is also of particular interest to historical linguists since it is an example of what has been called change from above innovation first evidenced in the written usage of the culturally élite which then diffuses into more general acceptance, with the result that some cultured borrowings (e.g. problem/problema, social, program(me)/programa) are now amongst the most common words in the modern languages. Despite their enormous influence on such major languages as English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian, the mechanisms by which these borrowings become established in their host languages have to date been relatively little studied. This book seeks to make a contribution to this question and revive interest in what has become a neglected area of historical linguistics and contains contributions both by internationally respected scholars and new researchers in the field.

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