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1、杭州师范大学钱江学院学年论文OftheBorrowedWordsinEnglish 学生姓名 吕柳燕 指导教师徐瑞凤学院 钱江学院 专业名称英语班 级 英语0702 学 号07630710392009年 10月 31日TheLiteratureReviewoftheBorrowedWordsinEnglishEnglishistheworld'smostwidelyusedlanguagetoday,andalsohasthelargestvocabularyinalloth
2、erlanguages.Buthowdoesitbecomesosuccessful?Now,Iwillanswerit.ThereasonwhyEnglishhasbecometheworld'smostwidelyusedlanguageisthatithasastrongabilitytoacceptforeignwords.InEnglishtheborrowedwordsofotherlanguagescanbeseeneverywhere.Accordingtotheincompletestatistics,loanwordsinEnglis
3、hhavetakeupmorethanhalfofEnglishvocabulary.SoborrowingisanimportantpartofEnglishlanguage’sdevelopmenthistory.Inthebookof《英语词汇学高级教程》by汪榕培王之江主编，上海外语教育出版社出版，itmentionedthatborrowingisanaturalprocessoflanguagechangewherebyonelanguageaddsnewwordstoitsownlexiconbycopyingthosewordsfroma
4、notherlanguage.Andthiscomesthewordloan—wordsheborrowedwords.FromOldEnglishtomodernEnglishthereareacceptedbyalargenumberofforeignwords,particularlyfromEurope.InModernEnglishtheborrowedwordscamefromtheworld’sallthemajorlanguages,whichhasgreatlyenrichedtheEnglishlanguage'sexpressive
5、force.1,causesofborrowingsandwheretheyfromAccordingtothebook《英语词汇学引论》RevisedEditionwrittenby林承樟，武汉大学出版社,Latin,GreekandFrencharetolanguagesthathavecontributedmosttotheEnglishlanguage.Thatistosay,manyloanwordsintheEnglishvocabularyhavebeentakenfromthesethreelanguages.Otherforeignla
6、nguagesthathavecontributedwordsareoflessimportancethanthethree.Whenmentioningtheborrowing,therearetwocauses:historicalandsocial.Historically,ononehand,EnglishshareswithwrestGermaniclanguagesmanycommonwordsandsimilargrammaticalstructures;ontheotherhand,morethanhalfoftheEnglishvoca
7、bularyisderivedfromLatin.Someoftheseborrowingwordshavebeendirect,butagreatmanycamethroughFrench,somethroughotherRomancelanguage,suchasItalian,SpanishandPortuguese.Socially,astheworlddevelopssodoestheEnglishlanguage.Especiallyinthe20thcentury,owingtotherapiddevelopmentofmodernmass
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