Aims and objectives: This study examines fennicisms (i.e., Finnish loanwords calques) in Finland-Swedish, a Swedish variety spoken Finland. We investigate how fennicism frequency relates to speakers’ regional backgrounds fluency Finnish. Methodology: 134 participants from four regions Finland performed picture-naming task designed elicit fennicisms. The also rated their own Data analysis: A reg...

The present work argues for the existence of multiple default regularities plural formation in Arabic. As evidenced corpus loanword adaptation Jordanian Arabic, this study calls a reassessment treatment idiosyncratic forms mental lexicon. This investigation is line with dual mechanism theory where both memory and rule are active, but more reliance on (feminine sound –aat) over (broken patterns)...

Abstract Despite ample attention in the literature for alignment patterns and case frames more generally, we know very little about how these elements of grammar spread from one language to another a contact situation. Achieving better understanding this will help explain areal grammatical relation marking. In contribution, zoom on situation foothills North-West Amazon, where languages Quechuan...

Angola is characterized by many different languages and social, cultural political realities, which had a marked effect on Angolan Portuguese (AP). Consequently, AP diatopic variation. One of the effects in loanwords imported from other languages. Our objective to analyze texts, lexical forms used conduct comparative study with European Portuguese, whose aim identify possible Angolan. This proc...

Numerous cross-linguistic studies suggest that the adaptation of loanwords proceeds in such a way as to maximize perceptual similarity between input and output (Fleischacker 2000, Kang 2002, Kenstowicz 2003). Other authors have characterized the relationship between input and output sounds in borrowings as being based on phonological closeness rather than perceptual similarity (Paradis' TCRS lo...

This article proposes a new etymon for the Malay word lebai (minor religious official/scholar), namely Sino-Muslim term libai (禮拜, worship or service conducted in mosque). Scholars have traditionally argued that lebai, loanword introduced during early stages of Islamization, derives from Tamil leppai (or lebbai), likewise signifying (amongst other things) minor official/scholar. On this basis, ...

Acehnese, like other regional languages throughout Indonesia, is in constant and intense contact with Bahasa a lingua franca of Indonesia. Not surprisingly, many Indonesian loanwords are flooding into Acehnese. There some interesting sound changes affecting both consonants vowels, phonotactics, stress. This paper explores the vowel occurring when used within dialects A list 285 well-established...

The distribution of the Russian loan vocabulary within Saami languages centers on Skolt, Akkala, Kildin, and Ter Saami. In Skolt Saami, this loanword stratum forms largest contains more than 750 lexemes. Despite significance stratum, there has hardly been any actual analysis loanwords in languages. This paper aims to fill gap by presenting an overview from a phonological, morphological, semanti...