ADDENDA À L'INFLUENCE DE LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE SUR LA LANGUE ROUMAINE (LES FAUSSES GALLICISMES)
Addendum to the Influence of French Language on the Romanian Language (On False Gallicisms)

Summary/Abstract: The presentation illustrates how a false cultural motivation has been induced in the process of creating some lexical units in Romanian (words that functioned / function as triggers of socio-culturally charged representations). Specifically, there are three categories of false Gallicisms :1) apparent Gallicisms – loans attributed to the French language on the basis of the perceived similarity between their structure and their sonorousness with that of some French words : (tarif) customs – fr.douanier / de douane ; (teren) viran – fr. (lieu) vierge... The subclass is extended with words of authentic French origin, but which differ from their etymons due to a different semantic path : gallantry "garment accessory" and "store where such products are sold" ; vestă "short item of clothing, sleeveless and without collar, worn by men under the coat and by women over the blouse" ; 2) pseudo-Gallicisms – loans from languages other than French or internal creations of the Romanian language, which have their structure at least one French morphemic element, which falsely suggests the idea that the whole construction comes from French : picaj – fr.en piqué ; grandomanie – fr.mégalomanie ; 3) false ludic Gallicisms – oxytone non-Gallicisms (loans from Turkish, Greek, Romani, Slavic languages ; Romanian derivatives) that creatively imitate French pronunciation and / or spelling : mișto "(very) good" / "beautiful" – micheteau / micheteaux ; mitocan "rude, vulgar person" – mitocain.

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