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Publication details [#27630]

Ngom, Fallou. 2002. Linguistic borrowing as evidence of the social history of the Senegalese speech community. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (158) : 37–51.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
influencing | lexical borrowing | lingua franca | loanword | multilingualism | verbal action
Language as a subject
Arabic | English | French | Spanish | Wolof
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter Mouton
ISBN
0165-2516
Journal WWW
www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with cultural and sociohistorical aspects of linguistic borrowings in the Wolof speech community in the multilingual and multicultural Senegalese society.