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calques:
idiomatic phrases are
translated word for word. For example, "it goes
without saying"
calques the
French ça va sans dire.
Syntactic calques:...
- list
contains examples of
calques in
various languages.
Running dog
calques Chinese: 走狗; pinyin: zǒu gǒu.
brainwashing calques Chinese: 洗腦; pinyin: xǐ nǎo...
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being borrowed.: pp.43-45 Most
calques are not etymological.: p.45 For example, the
English compound basketball was
calqued, conventionally, into Standard...
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Argentina Chilean people Chinaman United States,
Canada Chinese people A
calque of the
Chinese 中國人. It was used in the gold rush and railway-construction...
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expression and the
similar wet job, wet affair, or wet
operation are all
calques of
Russian terms for such
activities and can be
traced to
criminal slang...
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diffusion throughout Mesoamerica is
provided by a
number of
semantic calques widely found throughout the area. For example, in many
Mesoamerican languages...
- Clackson. p. 152.
Eleanor Detreville, "An
Overview of
Latin Morphological Calques on Gr****
Technical Terms:
Formation and Success", M.A. thesis, University...
- P'atrás
expressions are
unique as a
calque of an
English verbal particle,
since other phrasal verbs are
almost never calqued into Spanish.
Because of this,...
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lexical items) from
another language. It is very
similar to the
formation of
calques,
excepting that in this case the
complete word in the
borrowing language...
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effects on the language;
these may
include the
borrowing of loanwords,
calques, or
other types of
linguistic material.
Multilingualism has been common...
