To the problem of the borrowings and their functioning in the modern English language (on the example of Gallicisms and Latinisms)

Abstract

The article provides a brief analysis of some borrowings in English from French and Latin. As a result of such assimilation the whole group of duplicating synonyms has become quite an expressive stylistic device in the modern English language.

Keywords

• borrowings
• duplicating synonyms
• alliteration
• pleonasm
• adjectival synonyms