Joseph Brooks
List of John Benjamins publications for which Joseph Brooks plays a role.
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2019 Secret language and resistance to borrowing in Chini Creativity in Language, Aikhenvald, Alexandra Y., Andrea Hollington, Nico Nassenstein and Anne Storch (eds.), pp. 83–94 | Article
In Chini, a language of northeastern New Guinea, speakers rely on principles of semantic extension including metonymy, metaphor, and other types of association to create new terms using material from the vernacular. They do so in a special sociolinguistically marked register referred to here as… read more