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Publication details [#26346]

Brown, Cecil H. 1996. Lexical acculturation, areal diffusion, lingua francas, and bilingualism. Language in Society 25 (2) : 261–282.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

acculturation | bilingualism | borrowing | lingua franca

Language as a subject

Languages, Native American

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0047-4045

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

Native American languages are shown to share native labels for acculturated European items if they are closely genetically related or when these terms or diffused to them via a lingua franca. It is argued that the extent of lexical borrowing is related to the acquired degree of bilingualism.