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calque

vr.tr.calque · ACT.PRC

Let an agent explain calques and their kinds, relay examples across languages and research on contact with attribution, and distinguish calques from loanwords, cognates and independent coinages.

Thing Registry Activities and processes

Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain calques and their kinds, relay examples across languages and research on contact with attribution, and distinguish calques from loanwords, cognates and independent coinages.

A word or expression formed by translating the parts of a word or phrase from another language element by element, a loan translation, as English skyscraper rendered into French gratte-ciel or German Wolkenkratzer, and Latin and Greek terms calqued into many languages, including semantic calques that borrow a meaning and etymological calques that reconstruct a form, with documented cases such as Hungarian calques from Turkic; calques are a major channel of language contact alongside direct loanwords.

What it is for: Not applicable; a linguistic process and result.

It can be explain kinds of calque; relay examples; relay contact research; distinguish from loanwords.

Distinguishing features

Translation of components

Hidden borrowing

Many kinds

Hard to prove

What it looks like

Not a visible object; words whose structure mirrors a foreign model.

How it is recognised

Loan translation element by element

Structural, semantic, phraseological and etymological calques

A loanword borrows the form itself; cognates share ancestry; coinages may coincide by chance

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms, as a type of borrowing

loanword

is a kind of - in registry terms

derivation

results from - the process

language contact

is contrasted with - which borrows the form

loanword

In practice

Families and kinds

structural or morphological calques

semantic calques

phraseological calques

syntactic calques

etymological calques

documented sets such as Hungarian-Turkic calques and Latin-derived calques in European languages

Standards and regulation

No regulation; linguistic conventions and etymological dictionaries

Failure modes and hazards

Asserting calques without evidence

Confusing calques with loanwords or cognates

Overstating purist claims about calques

Also called

Hungarian-Turkic calquesetymological calque

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a calque is.

Linguistics.

Definition

Definition and kinds.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a calque, and what kinds exist? definition
  2. Is the word a calque, a loanword, a cognate or an independent coinage? boundary

Examples

Examples.

Examples

Examples.

  1. What are well-known calques across languages, with sources? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the specific language? action
Research Contact and evidence.

Attribution.

Contact

Language contact.

Contact

Contact.

  1. How do calques arise in language contact, and what do cases such as Hungarian-Turkic calques show? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance

Evidence

Establishing calques.

Evidence

Evidence.

  1. How do etymologists establish that a word is a calque rather than a parallel formation? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance
Use Purism and translation.

Practice.

Purism

Purism.

Purism

Purism.

  1. How have language purism movements used calques to avoid loanwords, with attribution? provenance
  2. Which entry fits linguistic purism? action

Translation

Translation practice.

Translation

Translation.

  1. When are calques appropriate or problematic in translation? provenance
  2. Which entry fits translation studies? action
Context History and terminology.

Context.

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How have calques spread scientific and religious vocabulary historically, such as from Greek and Latin? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of vocabulary? action

Terminology

Terminology.

Terminology

Terminology.

  1. Where does the word calque come from, and how do terms differ across linguistic traditions? provenance
  2. Which entry fits contact linguistics? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should semantic calque be a separate entry?
  • How should etymological dictionaries be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming a specific contact set; should it be split off?