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27 - False Cognates

from Part 5 - Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 May 2024

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Danko Šipka  and
Mladen Uhlik
Edited by
Danko Šipka  and
Wayles Browne
Danko Šipka
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
Wayles Browne
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

This chapter addresses the phenomenon of false cognates in Slavic languages, i.e. words that sound alike but have different meanings, such as Polish brak ‘deficiency’ and Bulgarian brak ‘marriage’. Inter-Slavic false cognates are seen primarily as endpoints of diverging semantic and derivation processes in various Slavic languages. The chapter also discusses Slavic to non-Slavic false cognates, where in most cases diverging processes in lexical borrowing represent generators of this kind of relationship. False cognates thus provide important insights into all major processes of lexical enrichment. Pedagogical implications of false cognates in teaching Slavic languages are also presented.

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false cognatessemantic shiftsinter-Slavic comprehensionlanguage contactssemantic borrowinglexical borrowingmiscommunicationlanguage acquisition
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The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics , pp. 584 - 594
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Print publication year: 2024

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