Abstract

The article considers a relevant word-formative tendency in the modern German youth language - contamination. The semantic analysis of modern contaminants in the German language aims to identify donor languages and the peculiarities of this type of word-formation. The findings have allowed concluding that the English language dominates among the donor languages. Special attention is paid to dialecticisms that tend to participate more actively in the word-formative process.

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