Naslov
The influence of English on German: A morphosyntactic analysis

Autori
Ganić, Mirela

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Ocjenski radovi, diplomski rad, preddiplomski

Fakultet
Filozofski fakultet

Mjesto
Rijeka

Datum
21.09

Godina
2015

Stranica
26

Mentor
Drljača Margić, Branka

Ključne riječi
English, German, linguistic influence, morphosyntax

Sažetak
The aim of this study was to investigate English linguistic elements in the German grammar. Many linguists (such as Zimmer (1997) ; Carstensen (1980) ; and Onysko (2007)) dealt with this topic. The results of their studies revealed some changes in the morphology and syntax of the German language due to the importation of English loan words. This study hopes to offer a different insight into the Denglish phenomenon at the level of morphosnytax. The first part of the research offers an overview of the English influence on German, including the explanation of morphemic and syntactic borrowings that might be present in the German language because of the English interference. In order to see whether some standard German morphosyntactic constructions adopted English grammatical rules, I analyzed the German press language of 16 articles from the Spiegel online. The press language tends to show a tolerant attitude toward the English influx into the German language. In conclusion, the thesis argues that English linguistic elements change neither the German inflectional pattern nor the syntactic constructions. The results of the current study show that the observed syntactic changes in the Spiegel articles are predominantly mere stylistic variations or language inherent changes and that the inflectional pattern is borrowed together with anglicisms and it does not appear as a well-entrenched inflectional schema in German.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filologija

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