WORD-FORMATIVE ADAPTATION OF ITALIAN BORROWINGS IN THE RUSSIAN LANGUAGE

Abstract

The word-formative activity of the Russian language
itself becomes apparent in the process of borrowing.
The adaptation of many foreign borrowings takes several
stages, and among the Italian borrowings many words have
been assimilated in the language, and that can be shown by
the word-formative chains. At the same time one can observe
predominance of the suffi xal type of word formation. However,
at the beginning of the 21st century increased the stream
of new borrowings from different spheres of usage, which are
assimilated mainly from the phonetic point of view.
As a result of the analysis of the 20th-21st centuries borrowings
one can notice the predominance of words among
the nouns with Russian suffi xes, and less adjectives, verbs
and adverbs. The lexemes of the beginning of the 21st century
are mainly unassimilated.