Assertion: loanword | /r/HasProperty | borrowed for prestige
Facets:
Source sentences:
text: This language attitude could mean two things: a) the tendency to use what Romaine terms “gratuitous loans” (1989, p. 65), i.e. loanwords that exist in free variation with indigenous synonyms and are borrowed for prestige rather than necessity or need; and b) the tendency to produce loanwords in a form closest to the model.