Publication |
2012
Abstract
This article is concerned with the first Czech immigrant generation in the USA and the influence of American English on their Czech. The first generation can usually speak their mother tongue very well.
However, long-term contact with American English led to changes in the Czech language. In this paper, the analysis is oriented to the calques which are usually considered (by immigrants) to be the “correct” Czech words, as opposed to, for example, loanwords.