"phneumonia" - 1 õppematerjal

Inglise leksikoloogia

foreign word (nt, picturesque, magazine, cigarette). Grammatical forms may be strange to English. We mean irregular plural forms of nouns (nt, datum ­ data, bacterium- bacteria) 18. Assimilation. Types of assim. Degree of assim. We mean the changes that borrowings undergo(läbi elama) in English and how they adapt themselves its peculiarities. Types(?):phonetics that is changes in pronounciation. What was strange to English were replaced by other sounds (nt, phneumonia, psycology, ptolemy). Grammatical assimilation ­ 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)