Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History 9781101874479, 9781101874486, 1101874473

From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays

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Sometimes an Art: Nine Essays on History
 9781101874479, 9781101874486, 1101874473

Table of contents :
Frontmatter --
Table of contents --
List of contributors --
Acknowledgements --
1. Getting to grips with false loans and pseudo-Anglicisms / Gottlieb, Henrik
Furiassi, Cristiano --
2. Allogenisms: The major category of "true" false loans / Humbley, John --
3. Danish pseudo-Anglicisms: A corpus-based analysis / Gottlieb, Henrik --
4. Pseudo-Anglicisms in the language of the contemporary German press / Knospe, Sebastian --
5. Pseudo-borrowings as cases of pragmatic borrowing: Focus on Anglicisms in Norwegian / Andersen, Gisle --
6. False Anglicization in the Romance languages: A contrastive analysis of French, Spanish and Italian / Renner, Vincent
Fernández-Domínguez, Jesús --
7. False Anglicisms in French: A measure of their acceptability for English speakers / Walker, James --
8. The rise of the English -ing form in Modern Spanish: A source of pseudo-Anglicisms / Mott, Brian --
9. The influence of English and French on the Italian language of fashion: Focus on false Anglicisms and false Gallicisms / Lopriore, Lucilla
Furiassi, Cristiano --
10. Drawing a distinction between false Gallicisms and adapted French borrowings in English / Martí Solano, Ramón --
11. False borrowings and false Anglicisms: Issues in terminology / Furiassi, Cristiano --
Subject index --
Language index --
Author index.

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