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The Romanian Language under the Pressure of English Calques
The Romanian Language under the Pressure of English Calques

Author(s): Corina Dobrotă
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Lexis, Language acquisition, Phraseology
Published by: Editura Casa Cărții de Știință
Keywords: loan; source language; target language; xenism; equivalence;

Summary/Abstract: The present paper examines the types of English calques to be found in contemporary Romanian (lexical, semantic, morphological, syntactic, phraseological, etc.) from a variety of points of view, trying to account for their dominance.

  • Issue Year: I/2021
  • Issue No: 25
  • Page Range: 38-45
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: English
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