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Onysko, Alexander, Anglicisms in German - Borrowing, Lexical Productivity, and Written Codeswitching:
Berlin : de Gruyter, 2007
Approximately 432 pages, cloth, EUR 98.00 (currently USD 127.40)
ISBN 978-3-11-019946-8
(Linguistik, Impulse und Tendenzen, volume 23)
This is a detailed account of English influence on German based on a large scale corpus analysis of the newsmagazine Der Spiegel. There are 3 parts to the study:
Part 1 discusses the terminological fuzziness in the field, puts forward a model of the influence of English on German, and proposes a definition of the term anglicism.
Part 2 portrays the numerical impact of anglicisms in an extensive corpus and draws general conclusions from the overall quantitative influence of English in German.
Part 3 investigates the integration of anglicisms in German across the various lexical and syntactic paradigms.
Particular focus is attributed to the salient morphological features of gender, plural, genitive case, and verbal and adjectival inflection. Word formational processes such as compounding, derivation, and peripheral types of word formation are analyzed in detail. The study, written in English, sets the current standards of analysis and research in the field.
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