"conpagnon" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise leksikoloogia

Usually borrowings lost their former grammatical features, yet some have kept their original plural inflexion (nt, thesis). All borrowings with complex structure appeared in English as simple words (nt, umbrella, portpholio). Lexical assimilation(what happens to meaning)- words with many meanings are usually borrowed just in one meaning(spanish word cargo ­ good carried in a ship). Some meanings become more general(nt, umbrella). Sometimes primary meaning becomes secondary (nt, fellow ment conpagnon, now it's a boy or a man). Degree of assimilation : this is the extent to which the word follows norms of English. There are: Completely assimilated words ­ they don't differ from native words. We find them in older borrowings(nt, street, sister, nun). Such words are frequently used, they're stilistically neutral, they take part in word building. (nt, master, -ly,-ful, mastermind). Partial assimilation are divided into: 1)words are not assimilated semantically meaning they have a certain