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Title A dictionary of European Anglicisms : a usage dictionary of Anglicisms in sixteen European languages / edited by Manfred Görlach
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 351 pages) : maps
Contents A Dictionary of European Anglicisms; Contents; Map of the Languages Covered; Foreword; Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; Abbreviations and Symbols used in the Dictionary; Introduction; Aims and Restrictions; Data Collection; The Compilation of the Entries; Using this Dictionary
Summary The first dictionary of its kind to provide an exhaustive comparative treatment of the influence of English on other European languages. Covering sixteen selected languages from different language families, entries consist of words which are recognizably English in form and which appear in at least one of the languages tested. Entries comprise of a brief definition, followed by a summary paragraph containing a wealth of historical and linguistic information. Many entries are also. accompanied by a grid summarizing the distribution of the word across Europe. - ;A Dictionary of European Anglicis
Notes Originally published: 2001
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject REFERENCE.
Language and languages -- Foreign words and phrases -- English
SUBJECT Europe -- Languages -- Foreign words and phrases -- English -- Dictionaries
Subject Europe
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
Author Görlach, Manfred.
ISBN 9780191536175
0191536172
1281345970
9781281345974
9780199283064
0199283060