ÉTUDE LEXICOGRAPHIQUE ET SÉMANTIQUE DU GALLICISME MARCHIZ,-Ă EN ROUMAIN ACTUEL*
A lexicographic and semantic analysis of the Gallicism marchiz,-" in present-day Romanian

Summary/Abstract: Lexical borrowings represent a fruitful domain of research which presupposes the contact among several linguistic systems, cultures, and spiritual identities. Although there are many studies focused on lexical loans, the semantic aspect has been, somehow, neglected. The present paper starts from the word, marquis, marquise, a word with many cultural connotations, and aims at a lexicographic and semantic description from a diachronic perspective, both in the source language (French) and in the target language (Romanian). From the semantic perspective, we can note three distinct categories: 1. the French meaning is preserved without other changes; 2. the French meaning is preserved with some semantic innovations; 3. French meanings which cannot be found in Romanian.

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