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Publication details [#36398]

Sankoff, David, Shana Poplack and Swathi Vanniarajan. 1990. The case of the nonce loan in Tamil. Language Variation and Change 2 (4) : 71–101.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | borrowing | code-switching | loanword

Language as a subject

English | Tamil

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN

0954-3945

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper deals with code-switching and borrowing, especially nonce borrowing, in bilingual Tamil-English sentences, referring to comparative studies investigating the same phenomenon in five other bilingual communities.