Sökning: "loanword"

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  1. 1. Are Russian loanwords more permanent than the Sino-Russian treaties? : A study of the integration and use of Russian lexical borrowings in Modern Standard Chinese with a historical perspective on language contact

    Kandidat-uppsats, Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi

    Författare :Katja Pomortseva; [2022]
    Nyckelord :Chinese; Russian; loanwords; language contact; word frequency; lexical borrowing; corpus linguistics;

    Sammanfattning : China and Russia began their shared history in the 17th century and have since had stable and unstable language contact which has had an effect on the Russian-Chinese linguistic exchange. This study explores the integration and use of Russian loanwords in Modern Standard Chinese by using two quantitative methods. LÄS MER

  3. 2. Are Loanwords Trendier? : A Qualitative Corpus Analysis on Adjective Collocations of English Loanword Nouns and their Native or Sino Japanese Pairs in the Japanese Language

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Författare :Erik Larsson; [2020]
    Nyckelord :Japanese; loanwords; loanword pairs; gairaigo; kango; wago; emotive adjectives; collocation analysis; corpus; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : To analyse the behaviour of English loanwords in the Japanese language using corpus analysis is a relatively new field of research. The aim of this thesis is to add to this emergent field by attempting to discover if there are any differences in how English loanword nouns and their native Japanese/Sino-Japanese near synonym pairs are used in contemporary written Japanese. LÄS MER

  4. 3. Quantifying loanwords: A study of borrowability in the Finnish lexicon

    Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Allmän språkvetenskap; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Författare :Sandra Cronhamn; [2018]
    Nyckelord :loanwords; Finnish; Uralic languages; language contact; borrowing; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : The current study set out to investigate patterns of loanwords in a sample of 1,460 lexical meanings in the Finnish lexicon by means of quantitative methods. The methodology used was borrowed from the Loanword Typology project (Haspelmath & Tadmor 2009a), and consisted of a template including various fields, where information about each lexical item was coded. LÄS MER

  5. 4. Loanword compound truncation in Japanese: A study on Japanese learners’ understanding of loanword abbreviations

    Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Japanska

    Författare :Axel Bergman Engman; [2018]
    Nyckelord :Truncation; long vowel; light syllabic truncation; geminate; moraic nasal; English diphthong; light syllable; heavy syllable; contiguity; prosodic word; mora; gairaigo; loanword; constraint; Languages and Literatures;

    Sammanfattning : In this study, the comprehension of English loanword truncations in Japanese will be investigated. Both Japanese native speakers and learners of Japanese will display their ability to truncate different kinds of gairaigo compound loanwords. LÄS MER

  7. 5. Peloton versus Pack & Bunch : A study of French lexical borrowing in live English cycling commentary

    Kandidat-uppsats, Stockholms universitet/Engelska institutionen

    Författare :Sebastian Fernandez Almlöf; [2017]
    Nyckelord :Loanword; borrowing; lexical borrowing; cycling terminology; commentary;

    Sammanfattning : The sport of cycling is an ever expanding global phenomenon, drawing crowds in their thousands to watch the races unfold. Its community has a distinct vocabulary, with many terms borrowed from several other languages, principally French. LÄS MER