Early Mandarin loanwords in contemporary English
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DOI: 10.1017/s0266078419000208
Abstract: English vocabulary has expanded over centuries by ‘borrowing’ lexical items from other languages (Katamba, 2005; Durkin, 2014). Compared with European languages, non-European languages are never major sources of word borrowing in English, with Chinese staying… read more here.
Keywords: chinese loanwords; contemporary english; etymology; loanwords contemporary ... See more keywords