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Loanword Typology toward the comparative study of lexical borrowability in the world's languages |
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| A collaborative project
coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology,
Department of Linguistics
(Martin Haspelmath and Uri
Tadmor) |
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| In this project, we study lexical borrowing patterns in several dozen languages from around the world. Each language is the responsibility of a single author, an expert of the language and what is known about its history and its contact languages. For each language, we assemble lexical data for a fixed list of about 1400 meanings. | ||
| The results will be published as a book (or perhaps two volumes) with accompanying electronic database. There will be one chapter per language, presenting and discussing the results, as well as a number of introductory and generalizing chapters. | ||
| In this way we hope to provide a systematic basis for claims about borrowability and borrowing likelihood, as well as about grammatical, social and cultural conditions for borrowing. | ||
| The lexical meanings include those on the list for the Intercontinental Dictionary Series, another MPI Leipzig project. | ||
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology - Department of Linguistics |