词汇学第2讲 History of the English Language.ppt

Percentage of words from different sources Celtic Anglo-Saxon French Latin or Italian others 1,000 83% 11% 2% 4% 2,000 34% 46% 11% 9% 3,000 29% 46% 14% 11% 4,000 27% 45% 17% 11% 5,000 27% 47% 17% 9% Percentage of each source of neologisms * * * * * * * 5. Some Characteristics of Old English 1) Noun and adjectives have four cases: nominative case, genitive case, dative case (受事格) and accusative case (宾格). 2) Nouns have three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. 3) Nouns have two numbers: singular and plural. 4) Verb has three persons: first person, the second person