| Lemma | sudden event |
|---|---|
| Categoria grammaticale | N |
| Lingua | inglese |
| Sigla | Hockett (1958) |
| Titolo | A Course in Modern Linguistics |
| Sinonimi | |
| Rinvii | borrowing (inglese) |
| Traduzioni | |
| Citazioni | a ‘sudden event’: a single speaker borrows a form from some other community, or creates a new form analogically; if it survives, it is because others do the same, or because others in turn borrow it from him. |