World Loanword Series

[Anthony Grant]

Dear subscribers:

We are looking for people with specialist knowledge of the history of
particular languages to contribute data to the efforts of the World
Loanword Series, which   is a continuation of  the Loanword Typology
Project which was  headed from 2004-2010 by Martin Haspelmath and Uri
Tadmor (see Loanwords in the world’s languages: a comparative
handbook, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, Mouton de
Gruyter,2009).  The aim of this is  to investigate cross-linguistically,
in an accountable way, what can be borrowed and what is likely or
unlikely to be borrowed, in the world's languages.  The database
contains entries for 1600 concepts, and although we would like
information on the equivalents of the concepts in the database, borrowed
lexical items and items which are loan translations from other languages
are our especial concern.  We would like people working on a language
for the WLS to fill out the database for their language as far as
possible, and also to provide us with a prose chapter of up to 8000
words on the loanwords in that database, their sources and information
about the language contact history of speakers of this language, which
is intended to appear in an online collection and maybe in a paper
volume.  The finished databases will be added to those in the Loanword
Typology superdatabase.  A link to the concept database is here:
http://email.eva.mpg.de/~taylor/wold/help.html
While we are interested in contibutions for as many languages as
possible, some geographical areas or genealogical groupings were
under-explored in the Loanword Typology Project.  We are therefore
especially interested in coverage of languages of Native North America,
Khoisan languages, non-Austronesian languages of Papua New Guinea and
the Solomons, Basque, Korean, Mongolic and Palaeosiberian languages, and
languages of the Middle East, the southern and western Caucasus, and the
Indian subcontinent.
If you are interested, please contact us in the first instance for more
details.
Anthony Grant
granta at edgehill.ac.uk
Kim Schulte
Kim.schulte at uab.es









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