Semi-automatic detection of germanisms in Croatian newspaper texts

In this paper we aimed to discover to what extent Germanisms participate in the language of the Croatian daily newspapers (more precisely, newspaper headlines). In order to determine Germanisms in Croatian language, we used digitized copies of a daily newspaper, Večernji list. According to our results, 114 Germanisms were found in 217 headlines. When compared to 3088 titles where the total number of words in a one- month corpus was 21.554, we found out that Germanisms appear in only 1.006% of cases.