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Publication details [#12310]

Eastman, Carol M. 1991. Loanwords and Swahili nominal inflection. In Blommaert, Jan, ed. Swahili Studies. Essays in Honour of Marcel Van Spaandonck. Academia Press.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

inflection | language contact | loanword | noun | noun classifier

Language as a subject

English | Swahili

Annotation

This paper sets out to show that influence from the Swahili system on nominal inflection, can have its impact on loanword incorporation in the language.