| Lemma | borrowing |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Sapir (1933a) |
| Titolo | Language |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | language (inglese) linguistic change (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | Of the linguistic changes due to a more obvious type of contact the one which seems to have played the most important part in the history of language is the "borrowing" of words across linguistic frontiers. [...] borrowing naturally goes hand in hand with cultural diffusion. [...] borrowings have taken place in all directions, but the number of truly important source languages is surprisingly small. |