Features of the functioning of borrowed vocabulary in modern French

Nizhina Larisa Alexandrovna

The article describes the main trends of assimilation of borrowed vocabulary in modern French. The research is based on the analysis of borrowings and neologisms formed from them, recorded in the explanatory dictionaries of 2017-2020. On the basis of extralinguistic factors and intra-linguistic laws of language functioning, the mechanisms of external and internal ways of adding lexical content, their productivity and thematic areas are analyzed.

Keywords:French language, modern trends in language development, assimilation of borrowings by the recipient language, frequency of parts of speech, thematic areas of new vocabulary, methods of word formation.