1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. I. Theory
6. 1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms 3
7. 2. Allogenisms: The major category of “true” false loans 35
8. II. Germanic Languages
9. 3. Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis 61
10. 4. Pseudo-Anglicisms in the language of the contemporary German press 99
11. 5. Pseudo-borrowings as cases of pragmatic borrowing: Focus on Anglicisms in Norwegian 123
12. III. Romance Languages
13. 6. False Anglicization in the Romance languages: A contrastive analysis of French, Spanish and Italian 147
14. 7. False Anglicisms in French: A measure of their acceptability for English speakers 159
15. 8. The rise of the English -ing form in Modern Spanish: A source of pseudo-Anglicisms 175
16. 9. The influence of English and French on the Italian language of fashion: Focus on false Anglicisms and false Gallicisms 197
17. IV. English
18. 10. Drawing a distinction between false Gallicisms and adapted French borrowings in English 229
19. Appendix
20. 11. False borrowings and false Anglicisms: Issues in terminology 253
21. Subject index 279
22. Language index 282
23. Author index 283