On the issue of semantic assimilation of Spanish borrowings in American English. Yunatska A.B. In the process of assimilation in American English a sufficient part of Spanish borrowings has changed their semantics. This process was stipulated by linguistic factors as well as by extralinguistic ones, by socio-historical reasons in particular. Modifications were based on “reunderstanding”, metaphoric and metonymical changes.
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