Three Primary Borrowed Languages of English 英语外来语论文

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1、ThreePrimaryBorrowedLanguagesofEnglishAbstractHistoricalmarkscanbeseeninEnglishineveryperiodfromoldEnglishtomiddleEnglishandfrommiddleEnglishtomodernEnglishNewwordsfromothernationscameintouseinEnglish.Englishvocabularyhasbeenbroadeninganddeveloping.TheopennessofEnglishvocabularycanalsobeseen

2、initsregionalvarieties.TherearedifferentcharacteristicsinBritainEnglish,CanadianEnglishandsoon.Accordingtosomeexperts’estimate,thereareaboutonemillionvocabulariesofEnglish.Tooursurprise80%ofEnglishvocabulariesareborrowedlanguage.ThethreemajorlanguagesareLatinFrenchandGreek.Thereislittlechang

3、ewhenEnglishborrowedfromtheotherthreelanguages.InmypaperIintroducedthreepointsabouttheborrowedlanguages:threemajorresources,characteristics,andtheinfluencetoEnglish.[Keywords]English,varieties,borrowedThreePrimaryBorrowedLanguagesofEnglishEnglishanditsborrowedlanguageLatinFrenchandGreekallbe

4、longtothefamilyofIndoEuropeans.EnglishisabranchofIndo-EuropeanGermanicpuxi.TheGermanicdividedintoEastGermanicgroup,NorthGermanicgroupandWestGermanicgroup.Afteralong-termdevelopmentModernEnglishhasbecometheworld’smostwidelycirculatedlanguage.OneoftheimportantcharacteristicofEnglishisitsflexib

5、ilityanddiversity.Itnotonlyreceivesforeignwordsbutalsoisgoodatabsorbingthehabitsandculturalofforeignlanguage.ThisbasiccharacteristicisoneofthereasonsthatmodernEnglishcanabsorbtremendousvocabulariesfromotherlanguages.BorrowingisanimportantbasisofEnglishword-formation.InEnglishvocabularythenum

6、berofborrowedwordsisfarmorethanlocalwords.Sapirhadsaidthat“Asimpleinfluenceofonelanguagetoanotheroneis‘Productlend”(Language:AnIntroductiontotheStudyofSpeech,P129).Onceithadculture‘Productlend’itcanborrowedrelatedvocabularies”.IntheearlyyearsGermanicpeopleknewhowtomakewineaccordingtotheconta

7、ctincommerceandmilitarywithRoman.Naturallytheynamedthestrangedrinkwine.WiththeChristianityenteringintoEnglandsomerelatedwordssuchasbishopandangelenteredintoEnglish.IhaveintroducedtheconditionofEnglish’sfastdevelopment.ThenIwanttodiscussthreeborrowe