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1、4.IstheEnglishlanguagealwayschanging？TalkaboutsomechangesofEnglish.Whatarethefactorsthatcontributealottochangesofalanguage？旁白：Eversincehumanbeingscameintobeing,profoundchangeshavetakenplaceinthehistoryofhumancivilization.Amongthesechanges,linguisticchangesarecons
2、picuous.Variouslanguagesarespokenaroundtheworld,andeachofthemhasvariedalotfromitsorigin.Inthefollowing,WehadliketotalkaboutsomechangesinEnglish,andsomereasonsthatleaduptothesechanges.A:WeallknowthattherearethreestepsinthedevelopmentofEnglish:OldEnglish,MiddleEngl
3、ish,andModernEnglish.TheOldEnglishwassimplyacombinationofthelanguageoftheAnglesandtheSaxons.What’smore,theuseofEnglishwasverylimited,becauseitwasonlyspokeintheisleandthenumberofuserswasnomorethan10million.OldEnglishdevelopedintoMiddleEnglish,heavilyinfluencedbyth
4、eNormanFrench.ModernEnglishdevelopedfromthereandcontinuedtoadoptforeignwords,especiallyfromLatinandGreek.B:FromitshistorywecanseethatEnglishdiffersalotfromitsorigin,becauseithasbeeninfluencedbysomanylanguages.InoldEnglish,AnglewaswrittenasEnglandtheirlanguagewasE
5、nglisc.The“sc”waspronouncedas“sh”.Forexample,“sheep”waswrittenas“sceap”.Butthechangesofvocabularyareobvious,sinceEnglishadoptedalotofwordsfromFrench,GreekandLatin.Whatcausesthesechanges?Wethink,thereareseveralreasonsasfollowing.C:Firstly,thedominatingculturehasgr
6、eatimpactonthelanguage.Anationmayhavedifferentbranchesofculture,butonlythemostinfluentialculturecanimpactthelanguage.Inoldtimes,mostEnglishspeakersweretheAnglesandtheSaxonssotheMiddleEnglishwasjustasthewaytheysaid.Andnow,sincethegreatpowerofAmerica,withitsculture
7、’seffect,theAmericanInthecurrentof21stcentury,theEnglishusednowadayshasmanydifferencesfromtheModernEnglish.A:Additionally,whenwereadtheworkswrittenbyfamouswriterslivinginthe16thcentury,wecanfindhowgreatlythegrammarhaschangedfromtheEnglishofthattime.Intraditiongra
8、mmar,anounisonlytakenasanounandcanneverbeusedasaverb.Butinmoderngrammar,onecanheadforthedoor,orbutterthebread.Andwecanattributeanounwithanoun,suchas“riotpolice
