The phenomenon of borrowing in English and Arabic languages : a contrastive study

Other Title(s)

ظاهرة الاقتراض في اللغة الإنجليزية و العربية : دراسة التقابلية

Author

Kazim, Inas Naji

Source

مجلة الأستاذ للعلوم الإنسانية و الاجتماعية : مجلة علمية محكمة فصلية

Publisher

University of Baghdad College of Education for Human Science / Ibn Rushd

Publication Date

2016-12-31

Country of Publication

Iraq

No. of Pages

20

Main Subjects

Languages & Comparative Literature

Topics

• Terminology
• English language
• Arabic language
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English Abstract

All languages change over a period of time, often so gradually that speakers are not even aware of the changes until a century or more has spread.

Changes may occur in all aspects of a language –in pronunciation, syntax, and in the lexicon.

Lexical changes are the most noticeable and may be observed almost daily.

An important type of lexical change in English is linguistic borrowing, the addition to the lexicon of a word from another language.

English has borrowed so many words from so many languages that it is almost impossible to say anything without using a least one borrowed word .Modern borrowings are most obvious, such as kibbutz, from Hebrew, while words borrowed long ago is now often indistinguishable from native English words.

From the era of protest (and the era of protest started since the pre-Islamic era and up to the year 150 AH which is the era of the approved Arabic language after that era, metaphors and terminologies were appeared in the language) .

Then later the term al-dakhil (اندخ مٍ ) grew which entered afterwards at the hands of generators .Other terms such as generator, arabazation also refer to this phenomenon.

Both of them have their own features and formula which distinguish them from the al-dakhil.

All these processes play an important role in increasing the wealth of lexicon of language

Data Type

Conference Papers

Record ID

BIM-776944

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