The Adaptation of Anglicisms Phraseological Units in Croatian Economic Terminology
In this research we were interested in finding practical solutions for a) the classification of anglicisms phraseological units in Croatian on the material of economic terms, within the following groups of PUs: phraseological nominations, phrasal verbs and irreversible binomials, and b) determining the degrees of their adaptation in the Croatian language. The research provides data about various features of PUs (e.g. their structural features, semantic stability, idiomaticity, etc. on the basis of which they were classified into the appropriate class of the aforementioned types of PUs. In the second part of the research, after the typological part had been done, the analysis of eighty one PUs was conducted, which, according to our preliminary studies, showed a high probability of typological classification of adapted anglicisms in a way similar to that, by which nominal syntagms were analysed. Our study has shown that the principal degrees of adaptation of anglicisms phraseological units on the levels of orthography and semantics, might be defined within the following frame of degrees: 1) the zero degree of orthographic and semantic adaptation, 2) the degree of orthographic and semantic compromise adaptation, and 3) the degree of complete orthographic and semantic adaptation of PUs.