BORROWINGS: CONTINUITY IN COMMUNICATIVE FUNCTION OF LANGUAGE

Abstract

Human society cannot exist without communication, information exchange, availability and improvement of the means necessary for maintaining continuity in communication. The aim of the linguistic means at all times has been designed to meet the needs of people for intellectual communication, information exchange and daily conversations. Each language has its stable systems of wordformation, but today’s multifunctional human activity makes new demands on the language to ensure communication, particularly through enriching the vocabulary of the given language. Word-formation is, to a great extent, an intra-linguistic phenomenon, and its ways and means depend on the linguistic type of the language. The Armenian language, throughout its historical development, has relied greatly and increased its vocabulary through intra-linguistic means of word-formation, however, never abandoning the means of enriching its lexicon through external means, i.e. through direct or indirect borrowing from other languages – the latter being of utmost importance in the present phase of the development of the Armenian language.