Use Of Loan Words

Associated Documents (1)

Main AuthorPublished YearTitle
Brown, Cecil H.Naming the days of the week: a cross-language study of lexical acculturation

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Main AuthorHypothesis
Brown, Cecil H."Weekdays that are chronologically closer to weekend days will aquire loan words as labels before weekdays in the middle of the seven-day cycle…languages borrow terms for Saturday and Sunday before they borrow a term for any weekday" (536).

Associated OCMs

  1. vocabulary