Prestige as explanatory factor for borrowability: A Cognitive Contact Linguistic approach. KU Leuven
The two most frequently listed reasons for borrowing are lexical gaps and prestige. Where one of the main goals of my PhD project was to find empirical proof for the importance of lexical gaps for borrowability, this postdoc project focuses on verifying to what extent prestige can explain variation in the borrowability of lexical items. To this end, three different and highly complementary case studies will be conducted. The first survey-based ...