the question of the degree to which external (i.e., economic, social
and cultural) factors can contribute to the development of language
is undoubtedly one of the most complex most controversial i n
linguistic theory. True, the impact of extem tars upon the vocabulary
of language has been only too olbvious: the increasing complexity
of the extra-linguistic reality, reflected in the corresponding increase,
enrichment and differentiation of the word-stock of language, is
preponderantly motivated by external factors 1).