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  • 27 - False Cognates

  • from Part 5 - Sociolinguistic and Geographical Approaches
  • Edited by Danko Šipka, Arizona State University, Wayles Browne, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Handbook of Slavic Linguistics
    Published online:
    16 May 2024
    Print publication:
    23 May 2024, pp 584-594

  • 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.