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The wolf in sheep's clothing: Camouflaged borrowing in Modern German [PDF]

, 2008
This article addresses a phenomenon of language contact that has not received much attention in mainstream contact linguistics, namely borrowing via a mechanism Zuckermann (2003) calls MULTISOURCED NEOLOGISATION.
Mailhammer, Robert, Mailhammer, Robert (R16975)   +1 more
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STYLISTIC CHARACTERISTICS IN THE SYNERGETIC OF DECODING THE SEMANTIC VOLUME OF A NOUN (on the material of modern German-language fiction) Drebet

Writings in Romance-Germanic Philology, 2019
The article focuses on the interaction of syntagmatic, semantic and paradigmatic factors in the generation of noun content with its stylistic characteristics in the German language according to the linguosynergetic scientific approach, which treats the ...
V. Drebet
semanticscholar   +1 more source

German Language Teachers and Dyslexic Students

Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University, 2023
Dyslexia is a common disorder experienced by many students in Europe and worldwide. It is a specific learning disability, which also generates difficulties in foreign language acquisition.
Danuta Grzesiak-Witek, Urszula Niekra, Paweł Witek   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Superlative Objoid Constructions in British and American English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates regional variation in Superlative Objoid constructions (SOCs) and their prepositional variant (at‐SOCs). SOCs combine a possessive pronoun with a superlative adjective. These function as manner‐degree modifiers in a context where the possessive is in postverbal position and correlative with the subject, as in they tried
Tamara Bouso, Marianne Hundt
wiley   +1 more source

SEMANTIC DIFFERENTIATION OF HOMONYMOUS NOUNS OF THE MODERN GERMAN LANGUAGE

Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
The article explores the semantic features of homonyms and the methods used to differentiate them in speech. A comprehensive sampling from the explanatory dictionaries Duden (2023), Langenscheidt (2019), and Wahrig (2018) revealed 2,128 homonymous nouns,
Svitlana Kiyko, Yurii Kiyko
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Impressions that matter: How Italian SOEs construct a digital image through persuasive language strategies

Financial Accountability &Management, Volume 42, Issue 3, Page 396-411, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Rooted in the theoretical perspective of impression management, and drawing on the critical discourse analysis (CDA) approach, this study analyzes whether and how the Italian state‐owned enterprises (SOEs) in the energy sector over the period 2020–2023 use persuasive language strategies in their annual reports to portray the image of a ...
Fiorenza Meucci, Raffaela Casciello, Flavio Spagnuolo, Belén Gill‐de‐Albornoz   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Influence of Loanwords on the Sentence Structure of Modern German: Grammatical Changes, Syntactic Integration, and Morphological Adaptations

EuroGlobal Journal of Linguistics and Language Education
The integration of loanwords, particularly from English, is a defining characteristic of modern German. While borrowings primarily enrich the vocabulary, their morphological and syntactic adaptation to the German language system raises fundamental ...
Irade Ceferova
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Remnant Case Forms and Patterns of Syncretism in Early West Germanic

Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 2, Page 357-385, July 2026.
Abstract Early stages of the Old West Germanic languages differ from the other two branches, Gothic and Norse, by showing remnants of a fifth case in a‐ and ō‐stem nouns. The forms in question, which have the ending ‐i or ‐u, are conventionally labelled ‘instrumental’ and cover a range of functions, such as instrument, means, comitative and locative ...
Will Thurlwell
wiley   +1 more source

STRUCTURАL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN GERMAN TOPONYMS

Germanic Philology Journal of Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University
The article is devoted to establishing the structural characteristics of toponyms based on the material of modern German, selected from the latest lexicographical and cultural studies sources.
Yurii Kiyko, Ivan Yakubovych
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INTERCONCEPTUAL CORRELATIONS IN THE CONCEPTOSYSTEM OF MODERN GERMAN-LANGUAGE MEDICAL DISCOURSE

, 2020
Мета. Метою представленої статті є встановлення особливостей концептосистеми сучасного німецькомовного медич-ного дискурсу, а саме виявлення ключових одиниць його концептуального простору як ментального ресурсу та визначення взаємозв’язків між ними ...
Osovska S. I., Siaileva Ye.V.
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