[KS] Italian loanwords in Korean

[Werner Sasse]

dear Antonetta, I am sure you have contacted the Han'guk KogO yOn'guwOn....? 
Greetings, werner


>From: "antonetta bruno uniroma1.it" <antonetta.bruno at uniroma1.it>
>Reply-To: Korean Studies Discussion List <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>To: "Korean Studies Discussion List" <Koreanstudies at koreaweb.ws>
>Subject: [KS] Italian loanwords in Korean
>Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 22:53:57 +0100
>
>Dear All,
>
>I would like to ask if anyone can help me to find sources (articles, 
>dictionaries -although I have, of course, already, consulted the standard 
>works- books, work in progress...) on Italian loanwords used in Korean. I 
>have gathered a good 300 loanwords, but am unable to find much additional 
>information about the history of their introduction, the question whether 
>they are still current or not, the semantic domains in which they are used, 
>and so on. I am also interested in pseudo-italianisms. I am working on this 
>with a group of Italian linguists and the final goal of the project is to 
>compile a dictionary of Italian words used all over the world.  I was asked 
>to do the job for Korea, but it seems that not so much work has been done 
>for Italian I could fall back upon, at least compared with English 
>(American), German or French.
>
>
>
>I would much appreciate your help.
>
>
>
>Antonetta L. Bruno
>
>Associate professor of Korean Studies
>
>Faculty of Oriental Studies
>
>University of Rome "la Sapienza"
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>