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The article studies linguistic factors facilitating the formation of canadianisms; the latter emerge due to the bilingualism on the territory of Canada, and they are the result of the language interference. The paper presents the definition of the term «canadianism» and analyses the peculiarities of universal word-formation processes involved in creating these specific lexical units.

There are different approaches to distinguishing between proper names and nominal names. in this article it is proposed to consider this problem from the standpoint of cognitive linguistics, namely within the framework of the theory of prototypes. The application of this approach led to the introduction of the term "onychic conversion".