Corriente, Federico
Pereira, Christophe
Editorial: Walter de Gruyter
Número de páginas: 635 págs.
Fecha de edición: 29-04-2019
EAN: 9783110462630
ISBN: 978-3-11-046263-0
Precio (sin IVA): 231,00 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 240,24 €
Lexical borrowing is the living proof of impact of languages and cultures on each other, even when there are ethnical or ideological differences darkening or preventing acknowledgment of these facts, not only by common people, but even by established scholars unable nevertheless to free themselves from feelings current in their milieus. This circumstance has not helped much with a thorough and minute evaluation of the impact of Arabic and related loanwords during the Middle Ages on the languages of Western Europe, although almost everybody knows that the so-called Arabo-Islamic culture, which is a handy and common misnomer, owes little to the Arabian Peninsula and even less to Islam as a religion, being a blend of Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Iranian, Indian and Greek-Latin heritages.