TY - CHAP
T1 - The reflection of historical language contact in present-day Dutch and Swedish
AU - Gooskens, Charlotte
AU - van Bezooijen, Renée
AU - Kürschner, Sebastian
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - In the present study we quantitatively examine similarly constructed samples of formal spoken Swedish and Dutch in order to compare the composition of the lexicons. Results showed that Swedish has many more loans than Dutch, namely 44.4% against 27.9%. Within the Swedish loans there is a large compartment of Low German (38.7%), whereas most loans in Dutch have a French origin (63.8%). The differences in terms of the number and distribution of loanwords between the lexical profiles of Swedish and Dutch appear to be stable, as they were attested both in the present study and in previous studies. They can be attributed to differences in the linguistic distances between source and borrowing languages and to differences in the intensity of the contacts.
AB - In the present study we quantitatively examine similarly constructed samples of formal spoken Swedish and Dutch in order to compare the composition of the lexicons. Results showed that Swedish has many more loans than Dutch, namely 44.4% against 27.9%. Within the Swedish loans there is a large compartment of Low German (38.7%), whereas most loans in Dutch have a French origin (63.8%). The differences in terms of the number and distribution of loanwords between the lexical profiles of Swedish and Dutch appear to be stable, as they were attested both in the present study and in previous studies. They can be attributed to differences in the linguistic distances between source and borrowing languages and to differences in the intensity of the contacts.
U2 - 10.1075/impact.28.07goo
DO - 10.1075/impact.28.07goo
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789027288431
SN - 9789027218674
T3 - IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society
SP - 103
EP - 117
BT - Language Contact: New Perspectives
A2 - Norde, Muriel
A2 - de Jonge, Bob
A2 - Hasselblatt, Cornelius
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam, Netherlands
ER -