Loanshift

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As linguists, anthropologists, and others involved in translation realize, the boundaries of exchange between languages are not impermeable to loanshift of meanings (Lehiste 1988:20).

Source: wiktionary

The writer found 40 data that were categorized as Indonesian borrowing words of loanword type. However, the writer did not find any data which belong to loanshift.

Source: wiktionary

Loan translation is the only borrowing process for loanshift.

Source: wiktionary

In the contest between a Spanish word and an English word for its place in the new lexical gap (the right end of a broken line), in loan homonymy an English word wins (chanzaâ‚‚) and in loanshifting a Spanish word wins (apertura, extended).

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