STUDY ON THE INTERRELATION BETWEEN THE FOREIGN ELEMENTS AND THE NATIVE ELEMENT IN ENGLISH——English Borrowings from Chinese     

邹凌冰 《湘潭师范学院学报(社会科学版)》2000,(Z1)

English,as a cosmopolitan language,is one of the most colorful languages in theworld.Itis rather open to the foreign words.Considering its shorthistory of1 50 0 years,it is surprising that English has absorbed a great number of useful words and expressionsof almostevery language all over the world.In a survey of the1 0 0 0 mostfrequently usedwords in English,it was found that 38. 3% were borrowed from other languages( Crabtree,1 991 ) . The English borrowings are not only from French,Latin,…  相似文献