Julia Landmann

List of John Benjamins publications for which Julia Landmann plays a role.

Articles

The present study deals with proverbs of Latin and French origin adopted into English throughout its history. Dictionaries such as the Oxford English Dictionary Online (OED Online) serve as valuable sources to identify the different lexical units. The treatment of proverbs in lexicographical… read more
This chapter focuses on the lexical influence of Yiddish on English throughout its history. The findings rely on an analysis of the linguistic evidence in electronic dictionaries and corpora. Specific value will be accorded to the use of Yiddish borrowings in informal language. Yiddish has… read more
Landmann, Julia 2020 Eighteenth-century French cuisine terms and their semantic integration in EnglishLate Modern English: Novel encounters, Kytö, Merja and Erik Smitterberg (eds.), pp. 219–241 | Chapter
A great variety of French culinary vocabulary has been taken over into English down the ages (e.g., Chirol 1973). During the eighteenth century, too, French served English as an important donor of lexical items which reveal the finesse of French cookery. The present analysis sets out to shed light… read more