Resumen de ‐'Drink' Or ‐'Trunk', That Is The Question: The Distribution Of Selected Anglicisms And German Near‐Synonyms In Compounding
In this article, it will be shown that lexical contrasts and similarities between selected anglicisms and potential German near‐synonyms are optimally revealed in compounding, where distinctive properties of the non‐native head are either matched or contextually overridden by the native modifier. The corpus‐based contrastive analyses involve N + N compounds headed by the well‐integrated nouns Drink, Dealer and Job and their potential German equivalents (e.g. Geburtstagsdrink vs. Geburtstagstrunk “birthday drink”, Autodealer vs. Autohändler ‘car dealer’, Ferienjob vs. ?Ferienberuf “holiday job”). The semantic description will be performed on the basis of Pustejovsky's Generative Lexicon, which allows for a context‐specific interpretation of lexical items. Connotative properties will mainly be described in relation to the stylistic functions they fulfil in journalistic contexts.
