"Towards a Typological Classification of
Linguistic Borrowing." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses 10: 81-94.
The analysis of
linguistic borrowing. Language 26(2).
This paper attempted to discuss the impact of Urdu borrowings on Pakistani English and showed how
linguistic borrowing acts as a major cause for language change.
What are the most important implications of the Japanese simplification of Chinese characters for understanding
linguistic borrowing, in general, and lexical borrowing, in particular?
Following an introductory overview, a review of Matras and Sakel's concepts of matter and pattern in
linguistic borrowing, and a discussion of the borrowability of structural categories, each of the remaining 27 chapters focuses on the diachronic impact that language contact has had on the structure of a particular language.
We consider
linguistic borrowing through the prisms of purism in contemporary European languages and of implicit and explicit purism in Croatian.
This is a very instructive book, full of interesting and out-of-the-way information, which I can recommend to all readers interested in
linguistic borrowing and its cultural implications.
Historically speaking,
linguistic borrowing is a common phenomenon in the evolution of a language.
The third section discusses codeswitching and
linguistic borrowing, noting that findings point to an early convergence with adult codeswitching norms during the preschool years.
But the parroting of Japanese models is here mostly limited to
linguistic borrowing; refreshingly it does not extend to the question of the genetic relationship of the language, which the book freely admits may well be "Altaic," even paying tribute to the pioneering work of G.
Thus the frontiers of Europe were filled with bi- and tri-lingual inhabitants at many social levels who engaged in constant
linguistic borrowing in all directions.