This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds
of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective.
It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide
sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages,
and both languages with heavy borrowing and languages with little
lexical influence from other languages. The book is the result of a
five-year project bringing together a unique group of specialists
of many different languages and areas. The introductory chapters
provide a general up-to-date introduction to language contact at
the word level, as well as a presentation of the project's
methodology. All the chapters are based on samples of 1000-2000
words, elicited by a uniform meaning list of 1460 meanings. The
combined database, comprising over 70,000 words, is published
online at the same time as the book is published. For each word,
information about loanword status is given in the database, and the
40 case studies in the book describe the social and historical
contact situations in detail. The final chapter draws general
conclusions about what kinds of words tend to get borrowed, what
kinds of word meanings are particularly resistant to borrowing, and
what kinds of social contact situations lead to what kinds of
borrowing situations.
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