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Lügat-i Nâcî
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ISBN: 9789751622174 9751622174 Year: 2009 Publisher: Ankara : Türk Dil Kurumu Yayınları,

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Foreign words and phrases in English : metaphoric astrophysical concepts in lexicological study.
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ISBN: 9788322930557 Year: 2009 Publisher: Wrocław Wydawnictwo uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego

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Semitische Lehnwörter im Altgriechischen
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ISBN: 9783830046783 3830046782 Year: 2009 Volume: 4 Publisher: Hamburg : Kovač,


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Cookies, coleslaw, and stoops
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ISBN: 9789089641243 9789048510429 9048510422 9089641246 1282453858 9781282453852 9786612453854 6612453850 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Amsterdam] Amsterdam University Press

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Yankees, cookies en dollars
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ISBN: 9089641300 9786612453748 1282453742 9048510546 9789048510542 9789089641304 9789089641304 9781282453746 6612453745 Year: 2009 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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Van Santa Claus (Sinterklaas) en zijn slee (sleigh) tot aan de dollar (vernoemd naar de daalder) en Yankees (Jan Kees), de Nederlandse taal is van grote invloed geweest op het Amerikaans-Engels. Yankees, cookies en dollars laat zien hoe de Nederlandse erfenis tot ver buiten New York reikt en zelfs terug te vinden is in de indianentalen. Dit jaar wordt herdacht dat vierhonderd jaar geleden, in 1609, Henry Hudson met zijn VOC-schip voor anker ging bij Manhattan. In zijn kielzog landden Nederlandse kolonisten op het eiland die de stad Nieuw-Amsterdam stichtten. In de loop van vierhonderd jaar is


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Cookies, coleslaw, and stoops
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ISBN: 9789089641243 9789048510429 9048510422 9089641246 1282453858 9781282453852 Year: 2009 Publisher: [Amsterdam] Amsterdam University Press

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In 1609, the first Dutch settlers arrived in America and established trading posts, small towns, and forts up and down what we now call the Hudson River. To this day, American children are taught the thrilling history of the transformation of this settlement, New Netherland, and its capital, New Amsterdam, from landmark port into present-day New York State and the island of Manhattan. But, the Dutch legacy extended far beyond New York, as Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops reveals. From Santa Claus (after the Dutch folklore saint Sinterklaas) and his sleigh (the pronunciation of the Dutch slee is almost identical) to a dumbhead talking poppycock, the contributions of the Dutch language to American English are indelibly embedded to some of our most vernacular terms and expressions. The menu in most of our restaurants sports some originally Dutch names, and even our dollar is named after a Dutch coin (daalder). In this captivating volume, the renowned linguist Nicoline van der Sijs glosses over 300 Dutch loan words like these that travelled to the New World on board the Dutch ship the Halve Maan, captained by Henry Hudson, which dropped anchor in Manhattan more than 400 years ago. Surprisingly, the Dutch also gave several Native American languages words for everyday things like "pants", "cat" and "turkey". Lively and accessible, the information presented in this volume charts the journey of these words into the American territory and languages, from more obscure uses which maybe have survived in only regional dialects to such ubiquitous contributions to our language like Yankee, cookie, and dope. Each entry marks the original arrival of its term into American English and adds up-to-date information on its evolving meaning, etymology, and regional spread. Not to be missed by anyone with a passion for the history behind our everyday expressions, Cookies, Coleslaw and Stoops is the perfect gift for the linguistic adventurer in us all.


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Loanwords in the World's Languages
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ISBN: 9783110218435 3110218437 9786612714764 3110218445 1282714767 9783110218442 9781282714762 661271476X Year: 2009 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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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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Loan phonology
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ISBN: 9789027248237 Year: 2009 Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa. : John Benjamins,

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Kanji look and learn : 512 kanji with illustrations and mnemonic hints = Imēji de oboeru [genki] na kanji 512
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ISBN: 9784789013499 4789013499 9784789013505 4789013502 Year: 2009 Publisher: Tokyo : The Japan Times,

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