Borrowings and their Diachronic Development in Scientific and Technical Terminology of Mechanical Engineering in Albanian

Abstract

This article is about diachronic development of borrowings in the lexicon of mechanical engineering. We examine a range of problems related to its linguistic and terminological character. Mechanical lexicon faces various problems pertaining to linguistic construction terms, as well as form-content relationships. To highlight the dynamic development of the lexicon, its analysis has begun prior to 1945 period because this is exactly the period of crystallization of this vocabulary closely linked with external factors. In this lexicon, there are a considerable number of foreign terms borrowed from different languages like Italian, French. These borrowings have played an important role in the formation of mechanical engineering terminology and despite the creation of Albanian terms they have created their own layer of specialized lexicon.

DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2015.v5n2p81