Linguistic Essence of Borrowing Words from French to English Words

Abstract

The study presents the linguistic aspects of the French borrowing process, its main extrolinguistic causes and main stages, and other French borrowings adopted during the transition to English. Particular attention is paid to the definitions given as a lexical phenomenon of borrowing based on various scholars and several lexicographic sources. The article also discusses the many borrowings from French to modern English, as well as their grammatical and structural features. The analysis identified the following types of French borrowing: formal, morphological, semantic, lexical, syntactic, and phraseological. The vocabulary of English consists of various semantic fields and historical periods from Old English to modern English.