Etymological Survey of the English Word-Stock
Etymological survey of the English word-stock
Learning objects:
After you have studied the material you should be able:
a) To speak on: -The term "native (word-stock), sources of borrowing, “origin of borrowing”. -To give characteristic of the words of "native origin"
b) Borrowings in English language (causes, ways, their assimilation, etc.)
c) To speak on the interrelation between native and borrowed elements in the English language.
Literature to be studied:
1. A course in Modern English Lexicology. By R. Ginsburg and others pp. 209-228.
2. English Lexicology. By Antrushina. Ch. З. pр.44-56 (n. 9 pp.48-54) Ex. 1, ch.4.p.62-71..Ex.l,?,3,o.71-72.
3.The English word. By I. Arnold pp. 248-55. Ch. 14
4. Этимологические основы словарного состава современного английского языка. Н. Амосова, стр.7-23,стр.160-166.
Etymology. The English word-stock.
Some basic notions
The most characteristic features, of English is said to be its mixed character. While it is wrong to speak of the mixed character of the language as a while, the composite nature of the English vocabulary cannot be denied. l) The term native in linguistic literature is used to denote word of Anglo-Saxon origin brought to the Britain from the continent in the 5th century by Germanic tribes (the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes)- Practically, the term is often applied to words, whose origin cannot be traced to any other language, for example, the word path. 2) prof. Smirnitsky A.I, suggested another interpretation of the term: as words which existed in the English word—stock of the 7th century. 3) Ginsburg and her colleagues proceed from a different understanding of the term native as comprising not only the ancient. Anglo-Saxon core bur also words coined later by means of various processed operative in English; namely word-formation, split of polysemy, etc. The term borrowing is used to denote the process of adopting we words from other languages and also the
Learning objects:
After you have studied the material you should be able:
a) To speak on: -The term "native (word-stock), sources of borrowing, “origin of borrowing”. -To give characteristic of the words of "native origin"
b) Borrowings in English language (causes, ways, their assimilation, etc.)
c) To speak on the interrelation between native and borrowed elements in the English language.
Literature to be studied:
1. A course in Modern English Lexicology. By R. Ginsburg and others pp. 209-228.
2. English Lexicology. By Antrushina. Ch. З. pр.44-56 (n. 9 pp.48-54) Ex. 1, ch.4.p.62-71..Ex.l,?,3,o.71-72.
3.The English word. By I. Arnold pp. 248-55. Ch. 14
4. Этимологические основы словарного состава современного английского языка. Н. Амосова, стр.7-23,стр.160-166.
Etymology. The English word-stock.
Some basic notions
The most characteristic features, of English is said to be its mixed character. While it is wrong to speak of the mixed character of the language as a while, the composite nature of the English vocabulary cannot be denied. l) The term native in linguistic literature is used to denote word of Anglo-Saxon origin brought to the Britain from the continent in the 5th century by Germanic tribes (the Angles, the Saxons, and the Jutes)- Practically, the term is often applied to words, whose origin cannot be traced to any other language, for example, the word path. 2) prof. Smirnitsky A.I, suggested another interpretation of the term: as words which existed in the English word—stock of the 7th century. 3) Ginsburg and her colleagues proceed from a different understanding of the term native as comprising not only the ancient. Anglo-Saxon core bur also words coined later by means of various processed operative in English; namely word-formation, split of polysemy, etc. The term borrowing is used to denote the process of adopting we words from other languages and also the