What is it about?
Co-occurrence networks are used to show that Māori loanwords cluster within texts in a topic-constrained corpus. In other words, speakers who use one loanword are likely to use many. We suggest that New Zealand English may be entering a third wave of borrowing.
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Why is it important?
We believe this is the first corpus linguistics study that uses both networks and hypergraphs. We show the value of these visualisations for studying language contact phenomena.
Perspectives
I hope this article encourages more linguists to use networks and hypergraphs in their own analyses.
David Trye
University of Waikato
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This page is a summary of: When loanwords are not lone words, International Journal of Corpus Linguistics, January 2023, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/ijcl.21124.try.
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