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2018年自考英语词汇学考试重点二

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Chapter 2 the development of the English Vocabulary

The Indo-European Language Family

The Eight Groups in Indo-European Family of Languages

The Balto-slavic Group(波罗的-斯拉夫语族):Latvian,Russian,Bugarian,Polish,Czech etc.

The Indo-Iranian Group(印度-伊朗语族):Sanskrit,Hindi,Urdu,Bengali,Persian etc.

The Armenian Group(亚美尼亚语族):Armenian.

The Albanian Group(阿尔巴尼亚语族):Albanian.

The Hellenic Group(古希腊语族):Greek.

The Italian Group(意大利语族):

Latin,Romance languages(French,Italian,Spanish, portuguess,Romanian) etc.

The Celtic Group(凯尔特语族):Gaelic,Welsh,Breton etc.

The Germanic Group(日耳曼语族):

Englsih,German,Dutch,Scandinavian(Norweigian, Swedish,Danish,Icelandic) etc.

 

The Three Stages of Development of the English Vocabulary@

1 Old English Period or The Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1100) (vocabulary 50,000 to 60,000)

2 Middle English Period (1150-1500)

3 Modern English Period (1500-now): in fact more than 25% of modern E words come almost directly from classical languages. In Modern E, words endings were mostly lost

Modes of V Development(Modern E): 1)creation 2)semantic change 3) borrowing