English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-Formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization

ISBN-13: 9783631663608 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 350 str.

Alicja Witalisz

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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.

O autorze

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.