Assimilation of borrowings

The English vocabulary contains an immense number of words of foreign origin. Words that came to English from other languages and constantly used in it as the original are called borrowings. One of the main way of enlarging the lexical system of the language is represented by borrowings.
The role of borrowings is different in various languages and it depends on certain development conditions.
The quantity of borrowed words in English is much higher than in other languages.

Introduction
Chapter I. Historical Contacts between Russia and Britain
1.1 Russian Loan Words in English
1.2 The Lexical Category of the Russian borrowings
1.3 The Meanings and the Etymological Characteristics of the Borrowings
1.4 Words of Foreign Origin Borrowed from Russian
1.5 Subcategories of Nouns
1.6 Folk Etymology
1.7 Morphological Features of the Russian Borrowings
1.8 Orthographic Features of the Russian Loan Words
1.9 Thematic Classification of the Russian Borrowings
1.10 The Meaning Changes of the Russian Borrowings
Chapter II. Borrowings as a way of replenishment of the vocabulary.
1.1 Assimilation of borrowings.
1.2 Phonetic assimilation.
1.2 Grammatical assimilation.
1.4 Lexical assimilation.
Conclusions
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