The influence of English language on the Romanian and French languages

Abstract

This article deals with the problem of English lexical borrowings in Romanian and French, resulting from technical progress, globalization, the import of new technologies, economic practices, etc. The author presents the Anglicisms‘s place in Romanian and French, specifying their spelling, semantic, syntactic and morphological features and highlights the fact that the influence of English language has led and still leads to the vocabulary internationalization, that enriches the common language vocabulary, as well as the specialized language and facilitates the communication between professionals of various fields.