The Functionality of Relatively Recent Verbs of English Origin in the Romanian Language

Abstract

The inclusion of Anglicisms in the vocabulary of the Romanian language presupposes a long process: identification, frequency, necessity, adoption, adaptation, functionality. In order to be included in the new linguistic system, once accepted, the lexical innovations are subject to changes, adjustments in terms of phonetics, orthography, morphology, semantics. In the present work, we propose to follow some aspects of the integration of verbs of English origin in the Romanian morphological system. For the analysis, we used verbal formations taken from the English language, which penetration, use and frequency were favoured by the existence of the corresponding nouns in Romanian, these being previously assimilated to the respective verbs. Constituted of English neological roots by way of derivation with Romanian means of suffixation (-a, -iza, -i, -ui), being calqued, translated, developing new meanings in different fields, the anglicisms-verbs are included, without much difficulty, in specific Romanian conjugations (the 1st and the 4th).