LIGN 177 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Dravidian Languages, Mock Spanish, Shampoo
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Lexical borrowings or loan words: all languages borrow words from other language with which they are in contact, the exchange is never equal. Background: tamil is a member of the dravidian language family. Hindi is also an indo-aryan language, and tamils see their language in competition with hindi. Linguistic motivation: tamils want to preserve tamil as a language with its own character. Adios: used not as standard good-bye", but more as a kiss- off. El cheap-o: so common, its used in company names el. Jane hill has written about the mock spanish phenomenon in. American english in her 1998 article language, race and white. 3: lengthened, diphthong [i] [ij, unaspirated, dental [t ] post-stress flap [ , morphological integration treating a loanword like a native word in terms of morphological processes, e. g. gender agreement in spanish (el weekend, *la weekend)