Borrowed Borrowings: Nahuatl Loan Words in English

Borrowed Words in English and Chinese Vocabulary

Borrowed words are the products of language development and cultural contact. This paper probes into the brief study of borrowed words in both English and Chinese vocabulary. At the very beginning it generally introduces issues being covered, and the following two parts center on the study of borrowed words on the basis of dictionary research. Later, this paper figures out the significance of b...

Detection of Loan Words in Uyghur Texts

For low-resource languages like Uyghur, data sparseness is always a serious problem in related information processing, especially in some tasks based on parallel texts. To enrich bilingual resources, we detect Chinese and Russian loan words from Uyghur texts according to phonetic similarities between a loan word and its corresponding donor language word. In this paper, we propose a novel approa...

When Words Sweat: Identifying Signals for Loan Default in the Text of Loan Applications

When Words Sweat: Identifying Signals for Loan Default in the Text of Loan Applications

The authors present empirical evidence that borrowers, consciously or not, leave traces of their intentions, circumstances, and personality traits in the text they write when applying for a loan. This textual information has a substantial and significant ability to predict whether borrowers will pay back the loan over and beyond the financial and demographic variables commonly used in models pr...

Beefmoves: Dissemination, Diversity, and Dynamics of English Borrowings in a German Hip Hop Forum

We investigate how novel English-derived words (anglicisms) are used in a Germanlanguage Internet hip hop forum, and what factors contribute to their uptake.