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Publication details [#49182]

Sanchez, Tara. 2008. Accountability in morphological borrowing: Analyzing a linguistic subsystem as a sociolinguistic variable. Language Variation and Change 20 (2) : 225–253.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | language change | language contact | linguistics | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Dutch | English | Papiamentu | Spanish

Place, Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Journal WWW

journals.cambridge.org/

Annotation

This paper quantitatively assesses the roles of linguistic and social factors in structural borrowing via an analysis of language contact data from Aruba and Curaçao, where the Papiamentu creole is in contact with Dutch, English and Spanish.