词汇学2课件.pptxVIP

Chapter 2 The Development of the English vocabulary英语词汇的发展 Contents1the Indo-European language family2Three phases of the historical developmentGeneral characteristics of English3Foreign elements in the English vocabulary45Modes of vocabulary development1. the Indo-European language family What is a language family?Languages in the same family, share many common grammatical features and many of the key words, especially older words, show their common origin.How many language families are there in the world?3000 languages in the world can be grouped into roughly 300 language families.Some impo