Twentieth-Century Borrowings from German to English: Their Semantic Integration and Contextual Usage

By Julia Schultz

This study sheds light on the German influence on the English lexicon in the twentieth century. It provides the first systematic appraisal of the semantic integration and contextual usage of the words adopted from German in the recent past. The results are based on a corpus of 1958 borrowings collected from the Oxford English Dictionary Online.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3631675135
• ISBN13: 9783631675137
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"