Автор: Пользователь скрыл имя, 28 Марта 2012 в 23:46, реферат
The vocabulary of Modern English is a product of a number of epoch. It consist of two layers – the native stock of words and the borrowed stock of words. Native words comprise only 30% of the total number of words in the English vocabulary but the native words form the bulk of the most frequent words actually used in speech and writing.
1. Foreign elements in English
2. Latin borrowings
3. Greek borrowings