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Borrowing
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The paper presents concrete examples for matter borrowing and pattern borrowing with Slavic recipient and donor languages. The main interest is on lexical borrowing, but several instances of grammatical borrowing are discussed as well, thus giving evidence for the effects…

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Menzel, Thomas, “Borrowing”, in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online, Editor-in-Chief Marc L. Greenberg. Consulted online on 07 June 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-6229_ESLO_COM_033655>
First published online: 2020



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