THE TYPOLOGY OF ANGLO-AMERICANISMS IN CONTEMPORARY LITERARY GERMAN
The article offers an analysis of the borrowed lexicon of English origin in literary German as well as a new typology of Anglo-Americanisms regarding their polyfunctionality and the dynamic character of the borrowing process observed in the lexical system of literary German since 1945. Two additional criteria are added to existing criterial base (according to the lexical-semantic characteristic, the way of assimilation and borrowing): according to the way of derivation and composition. According to the way of derivation all borrowed words of Anglo-American origin in literary German are divided in aprioristic (borrowed directly from the donor language with a ready semantic component) and aposterioristic ones (formed on the basis of the borrowed morphemic material of the donor language in the system of the recipient language). According to the composite criterion Anglo-Americanisms are differentiated in simple and compound words, acronyms and linear abbreviations and hybrid and monolingual contaminations.