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Chapter 13 - A Question of Direction: German Influence on English

from III - Domains and Features of English

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2019

By
Julia Landmann
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Raymond Hickey
Raymond Hickey
Affiliation:
Universität Duisburg–Essen
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Summary

Many studies written before the publication of Pfeffer’s (1987) book Deutsches Sprachgut im Wortschatz der Amerikaner und Engländer ‘German elements in the vocabulary of the Americans and the English’ concluded that German constituted a fairly minor donor of words and meanings throughout the centuries. The German borrowings were assumed to be scarce, and most of them were categorized as technical terms only known to the specialist. After the release of Pfeffer’s (1987) work, which includes more than 3,000 German words taken over into English since 1500, a number of authors of former surveys had to revise their findings.

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English in the German-Speaking World , pp. 250 - 264
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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