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Publication details [#44229]

Thomaj, Jani. 2006. The Albanian language: developments in the lexicon under the new social and political order. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 178 : 103–112.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language mixing | lexical borrowing | modernization

Language as a subject

Albanian | English

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper deals with developments in the Albanian lexicon since the country's transition from a centralized socialist system to a market economy in the 1990s, and especially with the integration of English words into several domains of the Albanian lexicon.