PECULIARITIES OF THE ENRICHMENT OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

The English language has been filled with some amazingly peculiar and bizarre examples of speech and grammar. Along with this vocabulary growth so to did the number of expressions and grammatical rules that seem to make no sense when actually examined. English can be a confusing method of communication even for native speakers. The history of the English lexicon is directly related to the history of great invasions, as each new nation settling in the island brought their own language and somehow left its certain elements as a legacy. Each language is exposed to the changes in accordance with the novelties occurring in the life of its speakers. Monitoring how new language units are created by methods such as borrowings, eponyms, acronyms, blendings and clipping is predominantly useful for linguistics. Similarly, in terms of defining cognitive sphere of language it would be useful to consider psychological processes that necessitate the acceptance of newly formed language units as new words. The presence of borrowings in any language should not be deciphered as a national tragedy, on the contrary they should be perceived as conditional names failing to reflect true nature of the units of reality. A striking example of the language’s evolutionary nature is the addition of new words to the word-stock of each language. The work “Peculiarities of the Enrichment of the English Language” is dedicated to the various peculiarities of the enrichment of the English language. The main goal of the article is to emphasize the dynamic nature of the lexical structure of the language, to consider the borrowings that enrich the English language, and to study some specific methods, such as eponyms, acronyms, blending and clipping, both from linguistic and psychological points, that is from linguo-psychological aspect. While analyzing this linguistic reality, we consider it necessary to examine certain psychological processes that guarantee its realization and make it inevitable. This analysis was conducted with the study of the sources related to the subject, the analysis of the results obtained, the analysis and synthesis of the arguments, and also the comparative analysis method.