PHONETIC-GRAPHIC ASSIMILATION OF BORROWED LANGUAGES BY THE RECIPIER

Abstract

The process of borrowing lexical units from one language into another is constant and cannot be prevented, as there are hardly any isolated nations and peoples in the world. The main reason for it is the globalization of all spheres of human activity. The studying of language contacts in linguistics is considered to be very important and interesting. Lexical borrowing is a very complicated process. The result of it is the transformation of the word of the source language into a new lexical unit of the target language in accordance with its phonetic and grammatical peculiarities. Numerous loan words enter the system of the target language and in the course of time become assimilated in this language. The changes take place at all language levels. At the initial stage the borrowed lexical unit is not assimilated, as it preserves the peculiarities of its prototype from the source language. Some of these words never become completely assimilated in the target language. The present article is devoted to some theoretical problems of assimilation of loan-words in the target language. Linguists distinguish different stages of entering of a borrowed lexical unit into the system of the target language. In the given article we will make an attempt to analyze points of view of different linguists on this complex language phenomenon. We will focus mainly on the phonetic and graphic aspects of assimilation of loan-words.