Essays about: "loanwords"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 33 essays containing the word loanwords.

  1. 21. The morphological integration of loanwords into Modern Standard Arabic

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Niklas Gadelii; [2015]
    Keywords : broken plurals; morphology; Modern Standard Arabic; loanwords; roots and patterns; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis explores the morphological integration of Standard Average European (SAE) words into Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). The topic constitutes a challenge insofar as SAE and MSA are typologically very different, and integration of words from SAE into MSA should therefore be generally difficult. READ MORE

  3. 22. A Lexical Analysis of Contemporary Medical Terms in Japanese

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Li Jin Yang; [2014-02-24]
    Keywords : Japanska; lingvistik; medicin; vokabulär; låneord; Sino-Japanese; native Japanese;

    Abstract : Medical terminology is an important subset to any language, and completely indispensable to oral and written communication in healthcare related professions. There is also a known divide between technical medical vocabulary used by medical professionals and general medical vocabulary that is easily understood by non-professionals and seen more frequently in everyday use. READ MORE

  4. 23. Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Robert Farren; [2014]
    Keywords : Irish; Middle Irish; Old Norse; loanwords; semantic domains; lexical borrowing; Vikings; prototypicality; radial networks; semantic change.; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This study questions the received wisdom that surviving Old Norse loanwords in modern Irish are fewer than 50 in number and are mostly shipping-related. The eventual goal is a complete survey of all Old Norse loanwords still “in common use in modern Irish” (Greene 1976: 80), since nothing of the sort has been found in the literature. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Distribution and Spread of English Loanwords : Some Indications from Written Bangla in Articles concerned with Science, Culture, Lifestyle, and Religion.

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Author : Christopher Fröderberg Shaiek; [2014]
    Keywords : English; loanwords; distribution; written text; Bangla; science; lifestyle; culture; religion.;

    Abstract : English has served as a donor language of loanwords to many different languages in the world. One of these languages is Bangla. READ MORE

  6. 25. Semantic Change in Words Loaned to Swedish

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap

    Author : Björn Torstensson; [2014]
    Keywords : English; French; diachrony; Middle Low German; Swedish; loanwords; metonymization; metaphorization; Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals LOC ; Cognitive semantics; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the diachronic semantic development in terms of metonymization and metaphorization for 30 nouns loaned into the Swedish language between the 13th and 20th centuries from a cognitive-semantic point of view. Through the framework of Lexical Meaning as Ontologies and Construals (LOC) combined with a study of the occurrence of metaphorization, metonymization, widening and narrowing in semantic development, it examines to what extent metonymization can be said to be a more common mechanism of lexical semantic change than metaphorization, and to what extent words lose semantic width initially after the loaning period and then regain it over time. READ MORE