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Publication details [#52424]
Sullivan, Celeste M. 2008. A mechanism of lexical borrowing. Journal of language contact varia I : 17–28. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
Brill
Annotation
Drawing on data from Lahore (Pakistan), this article provides a model to account for the general observation that lexical items are more often borrowed from a higher into a lower status language than visa versa.