Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina 2010, 12(3):58-60 | DOI: 10.26552/com.C.2010.3.58-60

Introductory Remarks on the Stratification of Borrowings through the Work of Mary Serjeantson

Dalibor Mikulas1
1 Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Science, University of Zilina, Slovakia

This paper examines the area of borrowings, the definition of borrowing as a process, the broader debate on the conditions of borrowing, reasons for borrowing describing both linguistic and extralinguistic aspects, the stratification of borrowings with its subclasses and consequent terminology. All of these issues are debated on the basis of the work of Mary Serjeantson.

Keywords: borrowing, loanword, typology, extralinguistic factor, diachronic perspective

Published: September 30, 2010  Show citation

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Mikulas, D. (2010). Introductory Remarks on the Stratification of Borrowings through the Work of Mary Serjeantson. Communications - Scientific Letters of the University of Zilina, 12(3), 58-60. doi: 10.26552/com.C.2010.3.58-60
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