The Role of -Ing in Contemporary Slavic Languages

Abstract

The article deals with words of English origin (with the terminal suffix -ing) which have penetrated into contemporary Slavic languages. The general introduction into the characteristics of -ing lexemes in the English language as well as principles of lexical unit adaptation are provided. The main emphasis is put on orthographic, morphological, word-formation and semantic adaptation of the lexical units in the Slovak, Russian and Czech languages.

Keywords

• loan word
• anglicism
• -ing participle
• orthographic
• morphological
• word-formation and semantic adaptation