German Loanwords in English - An Historical Dictionary

Klappentext This is a vast collection of English words and multiword lexical units borrowed from the German language. Zusammenfassung This dictionary! first published in 1994! is a vast collection of English words and multiword lexical units borrowed from the German language. It contains over 6!000 entries and explores the semantic area! variant forms! etymology! a listing of derivative forms and often grammatical comment for each word. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments; Primary sources; Abbreviations used in this book; Semantic field labels; Introduction; 1. An historical overview by semantic fields J. Alan Pfeffer; 2. Linguistic overview Garland Cannon; 3. The dictionary; 4. Appendix; Loanwords; Conclusion.

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• Authors: J. Alan Pfeffer, J.alan Cannon Pfeffer
• Assisted by: Garland Cannon (Editor), Cannon Garland (Editor), J. Alan Pfeffer (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521148375
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14837-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; English, REFERENCE / Dictionaries, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General, Dialect, slang & jargon, Dictionaries, Dialect, slang and jargon