<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>The article argues that lexical borrowing is not only motivated by cultural factors linked to prestige or economical aspects but also by the speakers’ need for new lexical-semantic categories and for highly expressive metaphorical terms to operate with, which makes them borrow words. The semantic changes of the lexical borrowings point to the creation of new items in the semantic fields of the receiving language. The integration of borrowings into Hungarian and Romanian exemplifies these processes.</p></abstract>

The article argues that lexical borrowing is not only motivated by cultural factors linked to prestige or economical aspects but also by the speakers’ need for new lexical-semantic categories and for highly expressive metaphorical terms to operate with, which makes them borrow words. The semantic changes of the lexical borrowings point to the creation of new items in the semantic fields of the receiving language. The integration of borrowings into Hungarian and Romanian exemplifies these processes.

Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation

Faculty of Letters, Hungarian and General Linguistics Department

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The article argues that lexical borrowing is not only motivated by cultural factors linked to prestige or economical aspects but also by the speakers’ need for...

Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation

Published Online: Jan 31, 2018

Page range: 53 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028

Keywords
word borrowing, lexical categorization, semantic change, representation, lexical codability

© 2017 Attila Benő, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Lexical Borrowing, Categorization, and Mental Representation

Published Online: Jan 31, 2018

Page range: 53 - 61

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/ausp-2017-0028

Keywordsword borrowing, lexical categorization, semantic change, representation, lexical codability

© 2017 Attila Benő, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
word borrowing, lexical categorization, semantic change, representation, lexical codability