The borrowing of classical and romance words into english a study based on the electronic oxford english dictionary

International Journal of Corpus Linguistics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 199-218

  Culpeper, Jonathan ^a   Clapham, Phoebe ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical loanwords; English vocabulary; Oxford English Dictionary; Romance loanwords

Indexed keywords

EID: 84989392668     PISSN: 13846655     EISSN: 15699811     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.1.2.03cul     Document Type: Article

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