¿Nos hacemos un/una selfie con la/el tablet? Cross-linguistic lexical influence, gender assignment and linguistic policy in Spanish
One of the immediate consequences of cross-linguistic lexical influence in languages that have an explicit gender system is the need to assign a gender to newly borrowed terms. In this paper, we analyze gender assignment in two recent technology-related borrowings in Spanish, ‘tablet’ and ‘selfie’,...
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Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso
2018
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