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Date: 03-Aug-2006
From: Philipp Waelle < p.waelle at peterlang.com >
Subject: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek:
Varella 

	
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Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 13:54:06
From: Philipp Waelle < p.waelle at peterlang.com >
Subject: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek: Varella 
 



Title: Language Contact and the Lexicon in the History of Cypriot Greek 
Series Title: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics  Vol. 7  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Peter Lang AG
	   http://www.peterlang.com
	

Book URL: http://www.peterlang.com/Index.cfm?vLang=E&VID=10526 


Author: Stavroula Varella

Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: U.K. £ 33
Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: U.S. $ 56.95
Paperback: ISBN: 3039105264 Pages: 283 Price: Europe EURO 47.10 Comment: for Germany and Austria EURO 50.40 (incl. VAT)


Abstract:

Cypriot is unique among the Modern Greek dialects in possessing such a
variegated vocabulary - testimony, indeed, to the chequered history of the
island. This book presents a thorough investigation of the foreign
component of the Cypriot lexis. It traces, firstly, the relevant
socio-cultural factors that gave rise to it. It presents, secondly, a
detailed account of how words from sources as diverse as Romance, Arabic,
Turkish and English became fully nativised and indistinguishable from the
native stock. A fresh case study of language contact and lexical borrowing,
it addresses such issues as the extent of lexical borrowing, the types of
vocabulary borrowed, the relationship between the social integration and
the structural adaptation of loans, and the degree and predictability of
the phonological, morphological and even semantic modification affecting
foreign words. 
 
Contents: 

Cultural/linguistic contacts in Cyprus and lexical borrowing 
Loanwords: systematic correspondences and etymology 
Loanword phonology and morphology 
Cultural borrowing and semantic adoption 
Semantic shifts in a cross-linguistic context. 



Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Sociolinguistics

Subject Language(s): Greek (ell)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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