英文摘要 |
From the mid-twentieth century, the close contact between Russian and English has not only contributed to numerous loanwords directly borrowed from English without translation, but also yielded abundant phrasal calques translated into existing words of Russian. Given the activeness of phrasal calques from English, the present study hopes to shed a light on what role they are playing and how they are used in Russian. Through the electronic media and corpora, the author found it common for phrasal calques to vary in their phonetic, lexical, word-formation, morphological and syntactic forms. In some cases, variation of phrasal calques suggests their instability as foreign units, but in others, it signifies their further adaptation by Russian, where language users flexibly include them in communication. |