New Perspectives on Lexical Borrowing: Onomasiological, Methodological and Phraseological Innovations (Language Contact and Bilingualism [LCB] Book 7)

This volume aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. The eight studies in this volume introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing. These new perspectives significantly enhance our understanding of lexical borrowing and provide new insights into contact-induced variation and change. This series offers a wide forum for work on contact linguistics, adopting an integrated approach to diachronic and synchronic manifestations of contact, ranging from social and individual aspects to structural-typological issues. Topics covered by the series include psycholinguistic and acquisition-oriented aspects of child and adult multilingualism such as bilingual language processing, second language acquisition, and bilingual first language acquisition; social, formal-structural, and conversational aspects of code switching; diachronic and typological aspects of contact-induced language change such as lexical and structural borrowing, contact languages, pidgins and creoles, convergence, and linguistic areas; as well as societal aspects of multilingualism, language management in multilingual societies, receptive multilingualism and lingua francas, language maintenance and language shift, multilingualism in computer-mediated communication, and more. The series does not have a fixed theoretical orientation and welcomes contributions from a variety of approaches. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. Table of contents Introduction: Onomasiological, methodological and phraseological perspectives on lexical borrowing A usage-based approach to borrowability What makes a catchphrase catchy? Possible determinants in the borrowability of English catchphrases in Dutch Formal variance and semantic changes in borrowing: Integrating semasiology and onomasiology Augusto Measuring and comparing the use and success of loanwords in Portugal and Brazil: A corpus-based and concept-based sociolectometrical approach Comparing the usage of Maori loans in spoken and written New Zealand English: A case study of Māori, Pakeha, and Kiwi English loanwords and their counterparts in Dutch job advertisements: An experimental study in association overlap On the variation of gender in nominal language mixings Linguistic globalization: Experiences from the Nordic laboratory Index Aims to broaden the focus of existing loanword research, which has mainly been conducted from a systemic and structuralist perspective. This volume includes eight studies that introduce onomasiological, phraseological, and methodological innovations to the study of lexical borrowing.