NEOLOGIE DE SENS ÎN ROMÂNA ACTUALĂ
Sense neology in present-day Romanian

Summary/Abstract: While the neologisms of English origin have been the focus of several studies in Romanian linguistics, little effort has been devoted so far to the study of lexical semantic loans registered in the last decade. This paper provides brief considerations on this topic, with particular attention to words of Latin and Romance origin adopted initially in the 19th century with certain meanings by means of French which have recently reentered Romanian with new and ”unexpected” meanings due to the influence of English. The difficulty to predict a future transfer of these words from the intensive use in newspaper articles to all language registers has restricted their status to accidental occurrences.

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