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ethnoanatomy in a multilingual community: an analysis of semantic change 1
Author(s) -
McCLURE ERICA F.
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
american ethnologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.875
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1548-1425
pISSN - 0094-0496
DOI - 10.1525/ae.1976.3.3.02a00090
Subject(s) - romanian , semantic change , linguistics , ethnography , semantic analysis (machine learning) , period (music) , sociology , anthropology , computer science , art , artificial intelligence , philosophy , aesthetics
Several languages and dialects have been in intimate contact in Romania over a long period of time. An ethnographic semantic analysis of anatomical terms in a Romanian multiethnic community sheds light on the extent to which the internal structure of words and the nature of the contact between languages influences the degree and nature of borrowing among those languages .