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Cases are still occasionally used productively as deliberate archaisms, which are often calques of existing phrases.
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This serves as an indication of its pedigree as a calque.
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The words of foreign origin or loanwords illustrate those processes: calques, loanwords, the distinction between function words and content words.
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On the other hand, spill-overs have imported useful source-language calques and loanwords that have enriched the target languages.
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By contrast, some languages have calques of football: their speakers use equivalent terms that combine their words for foot and ball.
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Often they use corresponding morphemes to the original term, and thus qualify as calques.
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In addition to this are neologisms, often being calques.
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The title uncleftish beholding calques atomic theory.
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