Abstract (eng)
German has been using English terms since the mid-17th century, but with the proliferation of computers and English vocabulary, the number of such loans increased explosively. Since technology is still advancing, this diploma thesis deals with the question of how the morphological integration of "IT-Anglicisms" in the system of contemporary German is in Austria. First foreign words are examined linguistically and three characterizations are presented. This is followed by an overview of some studies on Anglicisms and their definitions, before the characterization used in this work is presented and integration options in the German system are discussed. Then those properties are discussed which are used to evaluate the (flexion) morphological degree of integration. In order to investigate this, selected IT-anglicisms (computer-related meaning) in terms of quantity were used in Austrian print media (Kronen Zeitung, Presse, Kurier) in 1998 and 2018 in cooperation with the ACDH and qualitative differences and / or similarities compared to the German system. It was found that the use of all verbal and most substantive IT-anglicisms has increased in the past 20 years and that in 1998 mainly substantive ones were used. Most were masculine and only three times was there a fluctuation in enjoyment. The gender allocation was mainly motivated by the semantic criterion of lexical similarity. In 2018, however, only the firewall and laptop are morphologically integrated. Verbal IT-anglicisms have fewer irregularities because they all conjugate according to the same pattern as the weak verbs, and six were rated as morphologically integrated in 2018.