Loanwords in the world's languages
Subtitle: a comparative handbook
By: edited by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor.
Contributors: Haspelmath, Martin, 1963-; Tadmor, Uri, 1960-
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110218435
Subjects: Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Notational conventions; title: Acknowledgments; title: List of authors; title: General chapters: I. The loanword typology project and the world loanword database / Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor; title: II. Lexical borrowing: Concepts and issues / Martin Haspelmath; title: III. Loanwords in the world's languages: Findings and results / Uri Tadmor; title: THE LANGUAGES: 1. Loanwords in Swahili / Thilo C. Schadeberg; title: 2. Loanwords in Iraqw, a Cushitic language of Tanzania / Maarten Mous and Martha Qorro; title: 3. Loanwords in Gawwada, a Cushitic language of Ethiopia / Mauro Tosco; title: 4. Loanwords in Hausa, a Chadic language in West Africa / Ari Awagana and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Doris Löhr; title: 5. Loanwords in Kanuri, a Saharan language / Doris Löhr and H. Ekkehard Wolff, with Ari Awagana; title: 6. Loanwords in Tarifiyt, a Berber language of Morocco / Maarten Kossmann; title: 7. Loanwords in Seychelles Creole / Susanne Michaelis with Marcel Rosalie; title: 8. Loanwords in Romanian / Kim Schulte; title: 9. Loanwords in Selice Romani, an Indo-Aryan language of Slovakia / Viktor Elčík; title: 10. Loanwords in Lower Sorbian, a Slavic language of Germany / Hauke Bartels; title: 11. Loanwords in Old High German / Roland Schuhmann; title: 12. Loanwords in Dutch / Nicoline van der Sijs; title: 13. Loanwords in British English / Anthony Grant; title: 14. Loanwords in Kildin Saami, a Uralic language of northern Europe / Michael Riessler; title: 15. Loanwords in Bezhta, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Bernard Comrie and Madzhid Khalilov; title: 16. Loanwords in Archi, a Nakh-Daghestanian of the North Caucasus / Marina Chumakina; title: 17. Loanwords in Manange, a Tibeto-Burman language of Nepal / Kristine A. Hildebrandt; title: 18. Loanwords in Ket, a Yeniseian language of Siberia / Edward Vajda; title: 19. Loanwords in Sakha (Yakut), a Turkic language of Siberia / Brigitte Pakendorf and Innokentij N. Novgorodov; title: 20. Loanwords in Oroqen, a Tungusic language of China / Fengxiang Li and Lindsay J. Whaley; title: Loanwords in Japanese / Christopher K. Schmidt; title: 22. Loanwords in Mandarin Chinese / Thekla Wiebusch and Uri Tadmor; title: 23. Loanwords in Thai / Titima Suthiwan and Uri Tadmor; title: 24. Loanwords in Vietnamese / Mark J. Alves; title: 25. Loanwords in White Hmong / Martha Ratliff; title: 26. Loanwords in Ceq Wong, an Austroasiatic language of Peninsular Malaysia / Nicole Kruspe; title: 27. Loanwords in Indonesian / Uri Tadmor; title: 28. Loanwords in Malagasy / Alexander Adelaar; title: 29. Loanwords in Takia, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea / Malcolm Ross; title: 30. Loanwords in Hawaiian / 'Ōiwi Parker Jones; title: 31. Loanwords in Gurindji, a Pama-Nyungan language of Australia / Patrick McConvell; title: 32. Loanwords in Yaqui, a Uto-Aztecan language of Mexico / Zarina Estrada Fernández; title: 33. Loanwords in Zinacantán Tzotzil, a Mayan language of Mexico / Cecil H. Brown; title: 34. Loanwords in Q'eqchi', a Mayan language of Guatemala / Søren Wichmann and Kerry Hull; title: 35. Loanwords in Otomi, an Otomanguean language of Mexico / Ewald Hekking and Dik Bakker; title: 36. Loanwords in Saramaccan, an English-based creole of Suriname / Jeff Good; title: 37. Loanwords in Imbabura Quechua / Jorge Gómez Rendón and Willem Adelaar; title: 38. Loanwords in Kali'na, a Cariban language of French Guiana / Odile Renault-Lescure; title: 39. Loanwords in Hup, a Nadahup language of Amazonia / Patience Epps; title: 40. Loanwords in Wichí, a Mataco-Mataguayan language of Argentina / Alejandra Vidal and Verónica Nercesian; title: 41. Loanwords in Mapudungun, a language of Chile and Argentina / Lucía A. Golluscio.