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False Friends and Lexical Borrowing: A Linguistic Analysis of False Friends between English and Arabic
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Al-Athwary, Anwar A. H. – Journal of Language and Linguistic Studies, 2021
This theoretical study aims at raising awareness of the existence of lexical false friends (FFs) in English and Arabic as genetically unrelated languages. It also provides a general categorization for FFs from a semantic point of view. A sample of more than fifty FF pairs is examined by contrasting their form, pronunciation and meaning. The…
Descriptors: Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Borrowing, Semitic Languages, Metalinguistics