LEXICAL GENETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN TERMINOLOGY OF CARGO TRANSPORTATION
The formation of modern terminology system of cargo transportation has had a long history and is a result of the influence of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors. The synchronous analysis of its status reveals the presence of lexis of different ages, methods of word formation and different origin. For the purposes of nomination, except the Russian lexis are used lexical units from German, French, Italian, Spanish and other languages. At present the dominant language of the source of borrowing is English.