| Lemma | borrowing |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | borrowing idiolect (inglese) dialect (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | […] Here, […], is a second important mechanism of phylogenetic change: technically it is called ‘borrowing’. A single act of borrowing affects, in the first instance, only the borrowing idiolect. […]; borrowing is presumably the most important mechanism by which an idiolect continues to change during adult life. |