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DOI: 10.46698/w3283-0888-6892-a

ADAPTATION STAGES OF BORROWED WORDS IN THE RUSSIAN AND OSSETIAN LANGUAGES

Gatsalova, Larisa B. , Parsieva, Larisa K.
Kavkaz Forum. 2020. Issue 4.
Abstract:
The article considers the means of formal adaptation of new loans borrowed
into the Russian and Ossetian languages, as well as to various options of their
graphic figuration, morphemic and morphological features, thematic groups,
most especially distinct from the standard adaptation rules of both languages.
The stages of novation adaptation to the system of the language recipient
are demonstrated by the examples of neologisms in the Russian speaking and
Ossetian speaking media. A lot of loan words enter the Ossetian language,
among which are lexical units of various thematic clusters including IT, digital
technologies, robotics et-cetera. The Ossetian language receives some of them
through the mediation of the Russian language, this kind of lexemes enter the
Ossetian speaking space having undergone adaptation or in their original forms.
Latinized variants of the loan words borrowed by the Russian and Ossetian
languages in recent years and months have been considered neither in terms
of a contraversion of norms and traditions of a recepient language nor as an
infringement of self-sufficiency or ethnic identity, but in terms of one of the
adaptation stages, the initial stage of the infiltration of a loan into another graphic
system, after which the lexeme is to be adapted morphologically. A considerable
amount of linguistic data used in the research leads the authors to the conclusion,
that currently the Ossetian language is an open system, where any variation of
lexemes borrowed from other languages are easily adopted to its grammatical
form not only by means of using Latin alphabet, but in variety of ways. It has
coined a great number of neologisms, which proves the viability and flexibility of
the Ossetian language in the contemporary digital world.
Keywords: the Russian language, the Ossetian language, neologism, adaptation, lexis
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