Description
Book SynopsisThis volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, word-formation and semantic change. The study explores morphosyntactic, semantic and extralinguistic issues in the context of set expressions that are loan translated from a foreign language. It offers a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria as well as a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from the English language.
Table of ContentsContents: Loan translation – Borrowing – Loan – Calque – Semantic change – Language contact – Anglicism – Contact-induced innovation – Loanword – Semantic loan – Loanblend – Hybrid creation – Loan creation – Lexicalization – Idiomaticity – Idiomatization – Institutionalization – Semantic Lexicalization.
