SOURCES OF HOMONYMY AND THEIR VARIETIES IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

Abstract

This article examines the sources of homonymy in the English language, which appeared when borrowing from other languages as a result of interlanguage interactions, especially intensified in the era of globalization. Phonetic structure of borrowed words. And also, an increase in the percentage of homonyms in English as a result of borrowings. At the heart of the emergence of homonyms are changes in the semantic nature, since this group of homonyms arose as a result of the disintegration of polysemy at different periods of the development of the language.