Французские лексические заимствования в системе вокабуляра канадского варианта английского языка

Abstract

The article focuses on the study of French and Canadian French borrowed words in Canadian English, which possess unequal language status and a different degree of adaptation to the system of Canadian English. Old French lexical units acquire new lexico-semantic variants under the influence of their Canadian French counterparts, words with the meaning of cultural kernel objects and phenomena are easily transformed into English units with the help of the English derivation patterns. The present work aims at differentiating Canadian French loan words, belonging to different historical periods, on the basis of the degree o f their semantic assimilation in Canadian English and their varying paradigmatic and functional behaviour in the recipient language system.