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1、杭州师范大学钱江学院学年论文OftheBorrowedWordsinEnglish学生姓名吕抑燕导教师学院钱江学院_专业名英语班级英语0702学号07630710392009年10月31日TheLiteratureReviewoftheBorrowedWordsinEnglishEnglishistheworld'smostwidelyusedlanguagetoday,andalsohasthelargestvocabularyinallotherlanguages.Buthowdoesitbecomesosuccessful?Now,Iwil
2、lanswerit.ThereasonwhyEnglishhasbecometheworld'smostwidelyusedlanguageisthatithasastrongabilitytoacceptforeignwords.InEnglishtheborrowedwordsofotherlanguagescanbeseeneverywhere.Accordingtotheincompletestatistics,loanwordsinEnglishhavetakeupmorethanhalfofEnglishvocabulary.Sobo
3、rrowingisanimportantpartofEnglishlanguage'sdevelopmenthistory・Inthebookof《英语词汇学高级教程》by汪榕培王之江主编，上海外语教育岀版社岀版,itmentionedthatborrowingisanaturalprocessoflanguagechangewherebyonelanguageaddsnewwordstoitsownlexiconbycopyingthosewordsfromanotherlanguage.Andthiscomesthewordloan一word
4、sheborrowedwords.FromOldEnglishtomodernEnglishthereareacceptedbyalargenumberofforeignwords,particularlyfromEurope.InModernEnglishtheborrowedwordscamefromtheworld'sallthemajorlanguages,whichhasgreatlyenrichedtheEnglishlanguage'sexpressiveforce.1,causesofborrowingsandwheretheyf
5、romAccordingtothebook《英语词汇学引论》RevisedEditionwrittenby林承樟，武汉大学岀版社，Latin,GreekandFrencharetolanguagesthathavecontributedmosttotheEnglishlanguage.Thatistosay,manyloanwordsintheEnglishvocabularyhavebeentakenfromthesethreelanguages.Otherforeignlanguagesthathavecontributedwordsareo
6、flessimportancethanthethree.Whenmentioningtheborrowing,therearetwocauses:historicalandsocial.Historically,ononehand,EnglishshareswithwrestGermaniclanguagesmanycommonwordsandsimilargrammaticalstructures;ontheotherhand,morethanhalfoftheEnglishvocabularyisderivedfromLatin.Someof
7、theseborrowingwordshavebeendirect,butagreatmanycamethroughFrench,somethroughotherRomancelanguage,suchasItalian,SpanishandPortuguese.Socially,astheworlddevelopssodoestheEnglishlanguage.Especiallyinthe20thcentury,owingtotherapiddevelopmentofmodernmassmedia,theandculturalexchang
8、eandinformation,agreatnumberofborrowedwordshavecomeintoEnglish.Theyh
