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Some English borrowings adapted at semantic level in Croatian

The paper deals with some Croatian agriculture and food technology English borrowings analysed at the semantic level. The modern theories of the contact languages have been used as bases for the analysis of their primary and secondary meaning changes in the Croatian language. The former is characterized by the fact that meaning of some words derived from the English language can remain unchanged and restricted at the zero semantic extension. However, the secondary change of an English borrowing meaning is known by its meaning expansion and other development senses such as ellipsis and pejoration. The reasons for their appearance have also been mentioned in this paper.

Croatian language ; English borrowings ; semantic adaptations

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