IS IT STILL WORTH RESEARCHING GREEK AND LATIN LOANWORDS IN OLD POLISH? (AND HOW SHOULD WE DO IT?) The paper focuses on Greek and Latin loanwords in Old Polish language. It attempts to show what has already been done still needs be this important issue. Three main aspects are discussed: (1) definitions of the terms loanword, Latinism, Hellenism, problem direct indirect borrowing; (2) current sta...

This study examines which English vowel is matched with which vowel in Standard Mandarin in loanword adaptation, investigates the general patterns for and restrictions on vowel adaptation in Standard Mandarin loanwords, and determines which aspects of vowel quality is more carefully replicated than others. The results show that despite the seemingly high degree of variation, there are systemati...

Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found frequently in languages from across the world. There is, to our knowledge, no general synthesis of Wanderwörter patterns, causes of exceptionally high borrowing rates for particu...

This paper deals with the traditional distinction between necessary and unnecessary loanwords as a problematic one because it marginalises functions of so-called loanwords. By adopting cognitive-linguistic approach, this aims to highlight importance both types from language user’s point view. To end, we examine anglicisms in Montenegrin on basis new pragmatic model which distinguishes catachres...

After having given the reasons why it is legitimate to dedicate a special attention to the oral code with regard to the written code, we propose an approach to the automatic generation of French phonetic inflected forms. We shall examine it first inside the general context of automatic phoneticization, with a special attention to the phoneticization of loanwords. We shall then give the methodol...