TEORIJSKI TEMELJI KONTAKTNE LINGVISTIKE
THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONTACT LINGUISTICS

Summary/Abstract: Words of foreign origin entered certain languages in different periods of linguistic and cultural-historical development, under different circumstances, for different reasons or needs, and in different ways. By researching the linguistic literature and dictionaries, we come across different definitions and interpretations of the term 'linguistic contact'. The following is the problematization of linguistic and lexical borrowing because of linguistic contacts, and the reasons for linguistic borrowing and types of linguistic borrowings.

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