Borrowing and Internal Development in Lexical Change--A Comparison of Taiwanese Words and Their Mandarin Equivalents.

Cheng, Robert

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Publication Date: 1987

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Borrowing and Internal Development in Lexical Change--A Comparison of Taiwanese Words and Their Mandarin Equivalents.

Cheng, Robert

Journal of Chinese Linguistics, v15 n1 p105-30 Jan 1987

An etymological comparison of Taiwanese words and their Mandarin equivalents revealed that 30 percent of words found in sampled running texts have different etymons, with a high percentage of same etymons between Taiwanese and Mandarin content words and a lower rate of same etymons between Taiwanese and Mandarin function words. (Author/CB)

Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Correlation, Dialect Studies, Etymology, Function Words, Lexicology, Linguistic Borrowing, Mandarin Chinese, Morphology (Languages), Semantics, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Vocabulary, Word Frequency

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Language: English

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