Loanwords in the World's Languages : : A Comparative Handbook / / ed. by Martin Haspelmath, Uri Tadmor.
This book is the first work to address the question of what kinds of words get borrowed in a systematic and comparative perspective. It studies lexical borrowing behavior on the basis of a world-wide sample of 40 languages, both major languages and minor languages, and both languages with heavy borr...
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