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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...
- philosophy, and mathematics.
English continues to gain new
loanwords and
calques ("loan translations") from
languages all over the world, and
words from...
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first generation of
immigrants who use it more so when
speaking Spanish.
Calques are
introduced by bilinguals,
switching from one
language to another, words...
- Clackson. p. 152.
Eleanor Detreville, "An
Overview of
Latin Morphological Calques on Gr****
Technical Terms:
Formation and Success", M.A. thesis, University...
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lexical items) from
another language, very
similar to the
formation of
calques. In this case, however, the
complete word in the
borrowing language already...
- of
diffusion throughout Mesoamerica is
provided by a
number of
semantic calques widely found throughout the area. For example, in many
Mesoamerican languages...
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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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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...
