Helena Riha

List of John Benjamins publications in which Helena Riha is involved.

Article

Riha, Helena and Kirk Baker 2010 Lettered words: Using Roman letters to create words in Chinese Variation and Change in Morphology: Selected papers from the 13th International Morphology Meeting, Vienna, February 2008, Rainer, Franz, Wolfgang U. Dressler, Dieter Kastovsky and Hans Christian Luschützky (eds.), pp. 193–200 | Article

Lettered words are new borrowings and native creations in Chinese written fully or partly with Roman letters. Lettered words in which the letters fit into the Chinese visual ‘frame’ of writing, the ‘equidimensional square’, are adopted “as is,” bypassing traditional borrowing processes that employ… read more