Effect of foreign lexemes on the lexicon of the military profession in the Serbian language

Abstract

The subject of this research is lexemes of foreign origin in the language of the military profession (words of French, Russian, German, Turkish, Italian, English, or Spanish origin) and their impact on the lexical composition of the Serbian language. Using the material excerpted from the Military Lexicon and etymological dictionaries, we performed etymological and contrastive analysis, aiming to highlight the following questions: how, why and to what extent foreign words can affect the lexical composition of another language, which is used by a closed system such as the military.

Keywords

• lexeme
• lexicon of military profession
• the military
• etymological analysis
• derivation
• corpus
• semantic group
• serbian language