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THE CHRONOLOGY OF FRENCH AND LATIN LOAN WORDS IN ENGLISH 1
Author(s) -
COLEMAN JULIE
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
transactions of the philological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.333
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-968X
pISSN - 0079-1636
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-968x.1995.tb00437.x
Subject(s) - lexis , loan , relation (database) , linguistics , history , chronology , computer science , economics , philosophy , archaeology , finance , database
A comparison is made between earlier studies of French loan words, whose slightly varying methodologies reveal some interesting trends. Most of the earlier studies have restricted them selves to consideration of unaffixed loans taken directly from French with no alteration in sense, but this study compares borrowing from French and Latin as well as considering semantic and morphological development. Borrowing from each language is considered in relation to losses and in relation to the size of the lexis as a whole.