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Lexical changes as response to new trends on the labour market

Considering the need to analyse and to classify the lexical changes in the Italian language caused by the new trends in the field of employment, the goal of this paper is to collect the corpus of neologisms, to analyse and to compare them to their Croatian equivalents. The corpus will be extracted from the Italian dictionaries of new and foreign words and from on-line work ads, while the Croatian equivalents will be checked for in the Croatian dictionaries of new and foreign words. Having compared the Italian and the Croatian neologisms in the labour market lexis, the majority of which are formed according to the English model, we will analyse their behaviour and productivity in both languages. Considering relative openness of the Italian language to foreign influences on one side, and purist orientation and hermetic tendencies of the Croatian language on the other side, our analysis and classification should confirm much greater presence of original, non adapted English terms in the Italian corpus. Also, due to the greater tendency of the Italian language to forming new words, it is to be expected that the Italian corpus will contain a certain number of exclusively Italian neologisms, which are not present in the Croatian language

lexical changes ; labour market ; Italian ; Croatian ; comparative analysis

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