The influence of German on the lexicon of Palauan and Kosraean
- German loanwords are found in many languages in the South Pacific, in particular in those areas which were under German administration before WW I. The Austronesian languages in this area differ greatly with respect to the number of lexemes of German origin. The paper focuses on two languages of Micronesia, namely Palauan, with a comparatively high number of German loans, and Kosraean which had no German influence on its lexicon. The paperconsiders the balance of factors that contribute to the different loanword amounts. That German was taught in local schools for up to two decades did not, by itself, enhance borrowing from German. More weighty factors for the amount of borrowings from German are the length and strength of language contact with English and the use of German as a means of communication in particular settings in the years before WW I.
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| Author: | Stefan EngelbergORCiDGND |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:bsz:mh39-10534 |
| URL: | http://www.als.asn.au/proceedings/als2005/engelberg-german.pdf |
| Parent Title (English): | Selected papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society |
| Editor: | Keith Allen |
| Document Type: | Conference Proceeding |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first Publication: | 2006 |
| Tag: | Koloniallinguistik; Kosraean; Palauan; Pidgin; Sprachkontakt; language attitude; language contact; language policy; language teaching; loanword; second language learning |
| GND Keyword: | Deutsch; Englisch; Entlehnung; Lehnwort; Spanisch; Südpazifik |
| Page Number: | 20 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 20 |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 430 Deutsch |
| DDC classes: | 400 Sprache / 490 Andere Sprachen |
| Open Access?: | ja |
| BDSL-Classification: | Deutsche Sprache im Ausland |
| Leibniz-Classification: | Sprache, Linguistik |
| Linguistics-Classification: | Lexikologie / Etymologie |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung 3.0 Deutschland |