Remaking English: False Anglicisms and Lexical Features of Extraterritorial Englishes

Although quantitatively limited, false Anglicisms are a worldwide phenomenon affecting essentially all languages which have come into contact with English. This article is aimed at proving that the word formation processes involved in the coinage of false Anglicisms coincide with the ones active in the development of some vocabulary features of extraterritorial Englishes. Taking Caribbean English as a prototypical example, similarities between false Anglicisms and lexical items of extraterritorial Englishes will be shown.