It Runs in the Family. English and European Terminology Revisited
It Runs in the Family. English and European Terminology Revisited

Summary/Abstract: English and the other European languages (especially the Germanic and Romance languages) tend to evince “un air de famille”. We distinguish the ad-hoc meta-categories of “hardware’ resemblance (loan-words) and “software” resemblance (loan-translations). The paper sets out to discuss some recognisable Latin and Greek neologisms, which take up their place in the data-bases almost as such in different European languages or prompt certain derivational patterns of term morphology (calques or loan-translations) in Germanic and Slavic languages revealing the same ”software instructions” harking back to Latin and Greek models. For this reason languages like English, French, German or Russian seem more and more European by displaying their overt or covert kinship.

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