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Borrowing

Index of SIL publications on Borrowing listed by country.

See only SIL publications on Borrowing available online or for purchase from SIL International Publications.

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General works

• BENEDICT, Paul K., author. 1996. "Monic ‘*clur’ and other Southeast Asian ‘dogs’."  
• HEINS, John H., author. 2003. "A transliteração de nomes próprios na língua Sena."
• HESS, H. Harwood, author. 1991. Hazards of borrowing.
• PIKE, Eunice V., author. 1959. "A note on language borrowing in action."

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Ghana

• HANSFORD, Gillian F.; HANSFORD, Keir, authors. 1989. "Borrowed words in Chumburung."

Madagascar

• BLENCH, Roger M., author. 2006. "The Austronesians in Madagascar and on the East African coast: surveying the linguistic evidence for domestic and translocated animals."  

Americas

Brazil

• FORTUNE, Gretchen, author. 1988. "Indigenous literatures: Oral and written literature and the influence of language borrowing in relation to male and female speech differences."

Mexico

• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1954. "Palabras prestadas del español en el dialecto otomí."
• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1980. "Cornfield: a loan translation for the number thousand in some Mexican languages."
• BARTHOLOMEW, Doris A., author. 1980. "Otomanguean influence on Pochutla Aztec."
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1988. "Cora borrowings vis à vis creolization: An outsider’s view."
• CASAD, Eugene H., author. 1988. "Post-conquest influences on Cora (Uto-Aztecan)."
• CLARK, Lawrence E., author. 1977. "Linguistic acculturation in Sayula Popoluca."
• NORDELL, Norman, author. 1984. Spanish loan words via Aztec.  
• OLSON, Donald, author. 1963. "Spanish loan words in Pame."
• PICKETT, Velma B., author. 1992. "Palabras de préstamo en zapoteco del Istmo."

Peru

• WEBER, David J., author. 1980. "Un aspecto del quechua de Ancash."

Asia

China

• QIN Xiaohang, author. 1998. "Some Kam-Tai loan-words in Mon-Khmer languages."  

Indonesia

• NIVENS, Richard, author. 1998. Borrowing vs. code-switching: Malay insertions in the conversations of West Tarangan speakers of the Aru Islands of Maluku, eastern Indonesia.

Philippines

• BAKLANOVA, Ekaterina, author. 2006. "Morphological assimilation of borrowings in Tagalog."  
• BURTON, Scott L., author. 1996. A case study of lexical borrowing between language families: The East Mindanao and Manobo languages.
• BURTON, Scott L., author. 2003. "A case study of lexical borrowing between language families in the southern Philippines."
• CENA, R. M., author. 1979. "Double representations for some loan words in Tagalog."  

Thailand

• KAPPER, James, author. 1992. English borrowing in Thai as reflected in Thai journalistic texts.

Viet Nam

• BARKER, Milton E., author. 1969. "The phonological adaptation of French loanwords in Vietnamese."  
• GREGERSON, Kenneth J., author. 1991. "An Austronesian lexicon in Vietnamese."

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• LITTERAL, Robert L., author. 1987. "Can local languages express scientific, mathematical and other technological concepts?."