Publications

Publication details [#41474]

Simango, Silvester Ron. 2000. 'My Madam is Fine': The Adaptation of English Loans in Chichewa. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 21 (6) : 487–507.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language contact | language dominance | loanword

Language as a subject

Chichewa

Place, Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This article, which provides evidence from English loanwords in Chichewa (Bantu), demonstrates that the recipient language is not a passive participant in the process of borrowing.