Review of Paul Black's “Lexicostatistics with Massive Borrowing:The Case of Jingulu and Mudburra”  

作　　者：杨忆[1] 

机构地区：[1]浙江传媒学院,浙江杭州310018

出　　处：《科技视界》2014年第35期214-214,共1页Science & Technology Vision

摘　　要：In such a place as Australia,the mix of different nations makes it seen as a country with extensive lexical borrowing.There are lots of people who were interested in this area such as Rob Pensalfini,Isadore Dyen and so on.The conclusion of formal researches are based on"treating meaning as having cognate forms even if the shared cognate is only one of a number of synonyms in one or both languages."(p.64).However,in comparing with the formal findings Black adjusts the data base by demarcating the line of cognate and non-cognate wordsIn such a place as Australia, the mix of different nations makes it seen as a country with extensive lexical borrowing. There are lots of people who were interested in this area such as Rob Pensalfini, Isadore Dyen and so on. The conclusion of formal researches are based on ＂treating meaning as having cognate forms even if the shared cognate is only one of a number of synonyms in one or both languages.＂ （p. 64）. However, in comparing with the formal findings Black adjusts the data base by demarcating the line of cognate and non-cognate words and ＂applies lexicostatistics to the most massive case of borrowing known for Australia, namely between the Jingulu and Mudburra languages of the Northern Territory,＂

关 键 词：英语 词汇 澳大利亚 语言 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语]