EAN: 9783039105267

LANGUAGE CONTACT AND THE LEXICON IN THE HISTORY...

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.

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