%0 Book
%A Alicja Witalisz
%D 2015
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2195-7479
%@ 9783653057935
%T English Loan Translations in Polish
%B Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization
%R 10.3726/978-3-653-05793-5
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1049394
%X This volume on language contact is a corpus-based descriptive and theoretical study of the Polish translations of English one- and multi-word polymorphemic expressions. The formation of loan translations is unique among strategies in lexical development as it involves three processes: borrowing, word-formation and semantic change. The study explores morphosyntactic, semantic and extralinguistic issues in the context of set expressions that are loan translated from a foreign language. It offers a typology of loan translations, loan identification criteria as well as a dictionary of over 500 loan translations from the English language.
%K language contact, linguistic borrowing, calques, contact-induced innovations
%G English