Lemma | loan-form |
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Categoria grammaticale | N |
Lingua | inglese |
Sigla | Bloomfield (1935) |
Titolo | Language |
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Citazioni | When adaptation is completed, [...] the foreign origin of the form has disappeared, and neither the speaker nor, consequently, a relevant description can distinguish it from the native forms. The historian, however, who is concerned with origins, will class it as a 'loan-form'. |