At the XIII Międzynarodowa Konferencja Magistrantów „Poszanowanie inności – akceptacja swojskości” Szkoła Języka i Kultury Polskiej oraz Wydział Humanistyczny (międzynarodowe studia polskie i komunikacja międzykulturowa), Jan Zalega presented a paper titled Zewnętrzne wpływy leksykalne na język angielski [External lexical influences on the English language]. The paper addressed the following research questions: Which foreign languages have exerted the greatest influence on the expansion of the English lexicon? In which semantic and socio-cultural domains is the lexical influence of each contributing language most evident?

The findings indicate that the most significant lexical contributions to English originate from French, Norse languages, Celtic languages, and Latin. The analysis demonstrates that borrowings from each language are especially prevalent in domains closely associated with the respective source culture’s areas of influence, e.g., French in law, nobility, and military terminology; Latin in church-related and scholarly vocabulary; and Norse in maritime, fishing, and naval terminology.