"This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed fr
This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowin
This landmark publication in comparative linguistics is the first comprehensive work to address the general issue of what kinds of words tend to be borrowed fro
This book shows how, when, and why English took words from other languages and explains how to find their origins and reasons for adoption. It covers the effect
The strong development in research on grammatical number in recent years has created a need for a unified perspective. The different frameworks, the ramificatio