HISTORICAL FACTORS OF THE ORIGIN OF EARLY EUROPEAN LEXICAL BORROWINGS IN THE MODERN JAPANESE VOCABULARY

Abstract

The article presents a description of the historical background of the first European lexical borrowings in the vocabulary of the modern Japanese language. Primarily the authors identified and substantiated the historical boundaries of Portuguese and Dutch borrowings in chronological order. Then, within the framework of the tasks set, they made an empirical collection of lexemes borrowed from the 16th to the beginning of the 17th century, for further generalization and comparative analysis. A significant result of the study described in this article is the authors’ attempt to correlate the relationship between extralinguistic (historical and cultural factors) and linguistic factors (lexical borrowing from European languages) in the evolution of the Japanese language and culture. The study of various types of adaptation of foreign vocabulary throughout the history of European (foreign) borrowings into the vocabulary of the Japanese language can be considered as a perspective for the development of the research.