全国自考《英语词汇学》复习资料第二章(2)

全国自考《英语词汇学》复习资料第二章

The common practice was to create new words by combining two native words.

In the 9th century， many Scandinavian words came into English. At least 900 words of Scandinavian are in modern English， our daily life and speech.

特点： highly inflected language

complex endings or vowel changes (full ending)

2) Middle English (1150-1500) English， Latin， French

Until 1066， although there were borrowings from Latin， the influence on English was mainly Germanic. But the Norman Conquest started a continual flow of French words into English.

By the end of the 13th century， English gradually come back into public areas.

Between 1250 and 150 about 9000 words of French origin come into English. 75% of them are till in use today.

As many as 2500 words of Dutch origin come into English.

特点： fewer inflections

leveled ending

3) Modern English (1500-up to now) early modern English (1500-1700)

late modern English(1700-up to now)

The Renaissance， Latin and Greek were recognized as the languages of the Western world’s great literary heritage.

The Industrial Revolution was in the mid-17 century. With the growth of colonization， British tentacles began a stretching out of to every corner of the globe， thus enabling English to absorb words from all major languages of the world.

After World War II， many new words have been created to express new ideas， inventions and scientific achievements.

More words are created by means of word-formation.

thousands and thousands of new words have been entered to express new ideas inventions， and scientific achievements.