This book on language contact explores word-formation patterns, lexicalization, idiomaticity and institutionalization of loan translations (calques). It includes a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria, and a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from English.

This 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.

Autorentext

Alicja Witalisz is a Lecturer of English Linguistics at the Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland. Her field of research is language contact. She publishes on linguistic borrowing from English and specializes in covert borrowing.

Inhalt

Contents: 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.