Teoria contactelor dintre limbi; cu privire specială asupra contactelor între română şi engleză
The Theory of the Languages in Contact; a Special Outlook over the Romanian-English Contacts

Summary/Abstract: Our paper deals with the presentation of some aspects concerning Romanian – English contacts. Although these two languages have different origins (English is a Germanic language and Romanian is a Romanic one), both of them belong to the Indo-European family of languages. It comes out that the English lexic contains an important component of Latin origin, so English may continue the Re-Romanization process of modern Romanian language. There are dissimilar types of contacts between Romanian and English. So, we can mention: – economic contacts – referrring to the economic domain; – social-political contacts – between nations; – cultural contacts – between cultures; – linguistic contacts – between languages. We can also mention that English borrowings influence the linguistic strata (phonetical, morphological and semantic one) of the Romanian language and we try to answer the following question: Are we going to speak a new language: RomEnglish?

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