Die Rolle der Prestige im Sprachkontakt

Abstract

This paper deals with the role of the external factor “prestige’ in the contact between languages, the way how the prestige, the dominance relationship decides the development and direction of the borrowing process, as well as the survival of certain words and structure, and even the fate of a language.

Keywords

• prestige
• dominanzverhältnis
• entlehnung
• sprachkontakt
• sprecher
• prestige
• dominance relationship
• borrowing
• language contact
• speakers