Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found frequently in languages from across the world. There is, to our knowledge, no gen...

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Main Authors: Hannah Haynie, Claire Bowern, Patience Epps, Jane Hill, Patrick McConvell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Ampersand
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039014000022