Linguistic Integration of the Newest Anglicisms into the Russian Language

Abstract

This paper represents a study of usage of the newest English loan words in modern Russian. The data for this research were extracted from the main subcorpus of the Russian National Corpus. This corpus provides examples of usage of over thirteen thousand tokens with -ing suffix. New words with -ing suffix are analyzed for degree of linguistic integration into Russian. We examine the processes that loan words undergo while getting integrated into the Russian language on every linguistic level, as well as dispersion of the new loans across semantic fields. Analysis of the Russian National Corpus data lets us distinguish between those loan words that occur only once, or a couple of times (occasional loans), and those used by many speakers (widespread loans). This analysis makes it possible to draw a conclusion about integration of the loan words and their phonological, grammatical, and derivational characteristics.

Keywords

• Russian language-- Foreign words and phrases-- English