词汇学 第二章.pptVIP

英语词汇学课程课件 课件名称：英语词汇的发展 制作人：于海江 单位：运城学院外语系 Chapter 2 The Development of the English Vocabulary 英语词汇的发展 Objectives: Introduce the history and the general characteristics of English; Let students know the growth of contemporary English vocabulary and the modes of vocabulary development Teaching focus: the Indo-European language family three phases of the historical development general characteristics of English three sources of contemporary English vocabulary modes of vocabulary development 2.1 The Indo-European Language family The Indo-European language family is made up of most languages of Europe, the Near East, and India. The classification of Indo-European language family : According to various degrees of similarity and their geographical distribution, the surviving languages of Indo-European language family fall into 10 principal groups, which can be grouped into an Eastern set and Western set. The Eastern set: Balto-Slavic波罗的斯拉夫语族(the biggest one) Prussian普鲁士语 Lithuanian立陶宛语 Polish波兰语 Czech捷克语 Bulgarian保加利亚语 Slovenian斯洛文尼亚语 Russian俄罗斯语 Indo-Iranian印伊语族 Persian波斯语 Bengali 孟加拉语 Hindi 北印度语 Romany吉普赛语 Armenian亚美尼亚语族 Armenian Albanian阿尔巴尼语族 Albanian The Western Set Hellenic希腊语族 Greek Celtic凯尔特语族 Scotish苏格兰语 Irish爱尔兰语 Welsh威尔士 Breton布列塔尼语 Pictish皮克特语 Hittite希泰语族 Tocharian吐火罗语族 Italic意大利语族（5 romance languages） Portuguese葡萄牙语 Spanish西班牙语 French法语 Italian意大利语 Rumanian罗马尼亚语 Germanic日耳曼族 English英语 German德语 Dutch荷兰语 Flemish弗来芒语 Scandinavian languages 2.2 Three Phases of the Historical Development For each phase of the development, the following points must be made clear: Time range Features of English Social and historical events that influenced English greatly Old English (450-1150) Three questions for discussion: Who were the earliest inhabitants on the British Isles? What are included in Germanic tribes? What does England mean and why was the country called England and the language English? What is the feature of Old English? The first peo