Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

Haynie, Hannah; Bowern, Claire; Epps, Patience; Hill, Jane; McConvell, Patrick

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Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

Date

2014

Authors

Haynie, Hannah

Bowern, Claire

Epps, Patience

Hill, Jane

McConvell, Patrick

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Abstract

Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords.They are, however, found frequently in languages from across