Zur Typologie von Europäismen im Deutschen, Litauischen und Russischen

Abstract

The object of the research work is related to lexical Europeisms that are ascribed mainly to the domain of Eurolinguistics. Eurolinguistics is one of the newest branches in linguistics whose primary object of research is the investigation of similarities of European languages. The present paper embraces its fundamental trends of research and projects, e.g. Eurotyp, Eurolex, Eurocom and others which are directly associated with investigation of Europeisms. The aim of the article is to analyze lexical Europeisms from different lingua franca, to determine the etymology of them, as well as to show their integration types in the Lithuanian, German and Russian languages.