Loanshift
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Loanshift is a noun meaning The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
Meaning
The situation in which a word changes or extends its meaning under the influence of another language.
More Meanings
- A word whose meaning has changed in this way.
- To change a word in this way.
Example Sentences
Loan translation is the only borrowing process for loanshift.
The loanshifted category appears first as an innovation, becomes entrenched and may be conventionalized with meaning(s) specific to recipient culture.
The writer found 40 data that were categorized as Indonesian borrowing words of loanword type. However, the writer did not find any data which belong to loanshift.
As linguists, anthropologists, and others involved in translation realize, the boundaries of exchange between languages are not impermeable to loanshift of meanings (Lehiste 1988:20).
Word Forms
- loanshifts
- loanshifting
- loanshifted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include modification, reborrowing, transflection, transflexion, relexification, substitution.
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