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Arabic Lexical Contributions to the English Language
vanDuinkerken, Wyoma The Arabic lexical contributions to the
English language (2nd ed.) contains extensive additions to the
main entries and their data from the original 1994 edition by
Harrassowitz Verlag of Wiesbaden. It continues Cannon’s series
on loans into English, refining the principles and procedures
developed in the preceding German, Arabic, and Japanese books,
and comprehensive articles on Mandarin Chinese, Malaysian,
Spanish Turkish, and Welsh loans in English. The chief purpose
is to advance the historical study of comprehensive, mainly
lexical borrowing between languages in contact. The ancillary
purpose is to show how a collected corpus of loans can shed
light on multiple disciplines and the cultures represented
therein. This wide-ranging 2007 book is the la