Lexical borrowing in Korean: a diachronic approach based on a corpus analysis

Abstract Loanwords are lexical terms borrowed from foreign languages by transliterating the original sound of words with recipient language’s consonants and vowels. This paper focuses on borrowing in Korean language a diachronic perspective. Based approximately 9,500 loanwords extracted corpus women’s magazine articles residential sections (the Contemporary Residential Culture Corpus), we investigated alteration loanword usage 1970 to 2015. Having introduced our definition phonological morphological terms, performed statistical analysis particularly type/token frequency cultural/core loanwords, along semantic Period Representative Loanword (PRL). We argue that, addition its gradual rapid increase over time, underwent remarkable evolution 1990s.