Fremdsprachliche Interferenzen gestern und heute im Kontext der sprachexternen Faktoren. Eine Studie zum englisch-deutschen und deutsch-polnischen Sprachkontakt
Foreign-language interferences yesterday and today in the context of extralingual factors. A study of the English-German and German-Polish language contact

Summary/Abstract: The paper hereunder is an attempt at an analysis of foreign-language interferences which follow from language contact in the context of extralingual factors based on the example of English lexical borrowings and the degree of their assimilation in the target language. The research area has been presented on two levels: on one level the analysis includes English verbs which have come into contemporary German language. On another level the corpus constitutes some German words borrowed into the Polish language as a result of language contact from the past. The analysis was conducted in view of factors supporting the borrowing process. The context for the linguistic study is a historical and industrial background, which depends on the current needs of the specific society and on the direction from which the cultural development is propagated.

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