Lexical Borrowing

Daulton, Frank E.

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“…However, not all language-contact forms are restricted to lexis and morphological changes. Lexical borrowing can also include roots, collocations and grammatical processes (Daulton 2019), and it is commonly examined through the level of semantic indirectness, as shown in Figure 1. Whereas direct lexical borrowings are morphologically visible (loanwords, hybrids and false loans), indirect ones (calques and semantic loans) resort to native words and morphemes to construct new meanings.…”

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An Analysis of the Pragmatic Functions of Hispanicisms in Hemingway’s "Death in the Afternoon"

Fajardo

2021

J. engl. stud. (Logroño, internet)

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This paper seeks to explore the pragmatic functions of the Spanish-induced loanwords, or hispanicisms, used in the novel Death in the Afternoon by Hemingway. These borrowed words have been manually extracted and through the software kit AntConc, each occurrence or word token was examined to determine the prevalent pragmatic motivation in each text string: ‘ideational’, ‘expressive’ or 'textual’. Findings suggest that unadapted borrowings are most widespread, and the vast majority of them correspond to ideationally or referentially motivated loanwords. The assimilation of new referents (i.e. nonexistent in English cultural frames), particularly those related with bullfighting jargon, is linked to the general stylistics of travelogues. Expressive and interpersonal motivations are less frequent but they might reflect the vernacularization of travel writing and the extended use of euphemisms through lexical borrowing. Alternatively, textual motivations are regularly found through the use of synomyms, co-hyponyms and paraphrases, which are intended to ensure text clarity and coherence.

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An Analysis of the Pragmatic Functions of Hispanicisms in Hemingway’s "Death in the Afternoon"

Fajardo

2021

J. engl. stud. (Logroño, internet)

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“…Loanwords derive from lexical borrowing, which refers to "the adoption of individual or sets of words from another language or dialect" (Daulton, 2020(Daulton, , p. 1788. The forms of lexical borrowing may include roots and affixes, sounds, collocations, and grammatical processes.…”

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Creating a frequency-based Turkish-English loanword cognates word list (TELCWL)

Yu¹

2021

FELT

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This lexical study aims to establish a frequency-based Turkish-English Loanword Cognates Word List (TELCWL) to assist Turkish English learners' improvement in English language learning and the corresponding pedagogical practice. A final list of 582 Turkish-English loan-based cognate word pairs was derived from the New General Service List (NGSL) and the Frequency Dictionary of Turkish (FDT). For pedagogical purposes, the TELCWL was divided into five sublists with different features of the cognates in spelling and pronunciation. The coverages of the TELCWL were particularly high in discipline and field-specific corpora on average compared to general service written (5%) and spoken corpora (3.5%), accounting for more than 7%. This result suggests that the TELCWL may be more beneficial for enhancing learners' reading and writing ability; in addition, not only general Turkish English learners but also learners who need to improve their English language proficiency in specific disciplines can benefit from the TELCWL. Further pedagogical implications are made for English instructors regarding the employment of the TELCWL in English classrooms in Turkey.

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“…Neology Specific sources of neologisms have been studied: lexical borrowing (Taylor and Grant, 2014;Daulton, 2012), morphological derivation (Lieber, 2017), blends or portmanteaus (Cook, 2012;Renner et al, 2012), clippings, acronyms, analogical coinages, and arbitrary coinages, but these studies have tended to look at neologisms atomistically, or to explicate the social conditions under which a new word entered a language rather than looking at neologisms in systemic context.…”

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Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods

Ryskina,

Rabinovich,

Berg-Kirkpatrick

et al. 2020

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We perform statistical analysis of the phenomenon of neology, the process by which new words emerge in a language, using large diachronic corpora of English. We investigate the importance of two factors, semantic sparsity and frequency growth rates of semantic neighbors, formalized in the distributional semantics paradigm. We show that both factors are predictive of word emergence although we find more support for the latter hypothesis. Besides presenting a new linguistic application of distributional semantics, this study tackles the linguistic question of the role of languageinternal factors (in our case, sparsity) in language change motivated by language-external factors (reflected in frequency growth). 1

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Lexical Borrowing

Cited by 4 publications

References 7 publications

An Analysis of the Pragmatic Functions of Hispanicisms in Hemingway’s "Death in the Afternoon"

An Analysis of the Pragmatic Functions of Hispanicisms in Hemingway’s "Death in the Afternoon"

Creating a frequency-based Turkish-English loanword cognates word list (TELCWL)

Where New Words Are Born: Distributional Semantic Analysis of Neologisms and Their Semantic Neighborhoods

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