Reflections on Lexical Borrowing and Code-switching in New Zealand English

New Zealand English is most obviously marked from other varieties of English by its lexical borrowings from te reo Maori. Many of these words have become so much a part of the New Zealand English lexicon that their Maori origin is not consciously registered by their users. Such words – kiwi, kumara and kauri would be obvious examples – have been borrowed from Maori and fully integrated into English. These loan-words are generally obedient to English rules of phonology, morphology, and syntax