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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2014-01-01
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Series: | Ampersand |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215039014000022 |