Lexical acculturation, areal diffusion, lingua francas, and bilingualism

• Published in: Language in Society
• Main Author: Brown, Cecil H.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Inca; Pacific; Tierra del Fuego
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0047404500020637; https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0047404500020637

ABSTRACT This study continues an investigation of lexical acculturation in Native American languages using a sample of 292 language cases distributed from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego (Brown 1994). Focus is on the areal diffusion of native language words for imported European Objects and co...