BORROWINGS IN CHINESE AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE CHINESE LANGUAGE: THE ANALYSIS OF CHINESE LINGUISTIC SOURCES
The paper discusses the approach of Chinese linguists to studying borrowings in Chinese and their influence on the Chinese language. Examples of phonetic and semantic borrowings in Chinese are given. The influence of borrowings on the Chinese language on the part of form and meaning is analyzed: a borrowing represents a new method of word production which enriches the ways and methods of expression in the Chi-nese language and enlarges the number of polysyllabic words. Moreover, a borrowing increases the number of semantic components of a word and expands connotative meaning of a borrowed word.