ROLE OF MORPHONOLOGIC FACTOR IN ADAPTATION OF BORROWINGS (POLISH BORROWINGS IN BELORUSIAN)

The authoress turns her attention to the fact that modem linguistics does not know universally adopted preconditions for the definition of the character of borrowings or the way they are adapted by the language they enter. Using source materials from the Belorussian language, she demonstrates the extent to which it is important to account for features of both the source and the target language in an analysis of borrowings. In the view of contrastive research, she believes that a complex study of the process of adaptation of borrowings at all levels of the language, including the morpho-phonological one, is necessary to help to build a modem functional theory of language contacts.