The Semantic Adaptation of Turkish Loanwords in Cypriot-Greek [electronic resource] / Pavlos Y. Pavlou.

This paper examines the Turkish origins of a number of Cypriot-Greek words, explaining how some of these words have undergone a semantic shift. Words of Turkish origin can be divided into three classes: (1) culturally borrowed, those words that introduced a new concept into Cypriot-Greek and have no...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ERIC)
Main Author:	Pavlou, Pavlos Y.
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	[S.l.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1993.
Subjects:	Cultural Influences. Descriptive Linguistics. Diachronic Linguistics. Dialects. Foreign Countries. Greek. Language Usage. Linguistic Borrowing. Semantics. Turkish. Uncommonly Taught Languages.