English Language
Ural Scientific Centre (LYCEUM).Ural Gorky UniversityScientific workPerformed by:Pupil of 11e form of LYCEUMPokrovsky PavelDirector:Stolyarova Nelli AleksandrovnaTeacher of English language of LYCEUM.Yekaterinburg.1998.Table of contents.1.English Language....................................................................................................32.Vocabulary...............................................................................................................33.Spelling....................................................................................................................44.Role of Phonemes...................................................................................................45.Stress, Pitches and Juncture..................................................................................56.Inflection..................................................................................................................57.Parts of speech.......................................................................................................58.Development of the language.................................................................................68.1.Old English Period...............................................................................................68.2.Middle English Period..........................................................................................78.3.The Great Vowel Shift......................................................................................... 88.4.Modern English Period........................................................................................98.5.20-th century English..........................................................................................108.6.American English................................................................................................108.7.Basic English.......................................................................................................118.8.Pidgin English......................................................................................................118.9.Future Of English Language................................................................................121.English Language.English Language, chief medium of communication of people in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and numerous other countries. It is the official language of many nations in the Commonwealth of Nations and is widely understood and used in all of them. It is spoken in more parts of the world than any other language and by more people than any other tongue except Chinese.English belongs to the Anglo-Frisian group within the western branch of the Germanic languages, a sub-family of the Indo-European languages. It is related most closely to the Frisian language, to a lesser extent to Netherlandic (Dutch-Flemish) and the Low German (Plattdeutsch) dialects, and more distantly to Modern High German. Its parent, Proto-Indo-European, was spoken around 5,000 years ago by nomads who are thought to have roamed the south-east European plains.2.VocabularyThe English vocabulary has increased greatly in more than 1,500 years of development. The most nearly complete dictionary of the language, the Oxford English Dictionary (13 vols., 1933), a revised edition of A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (10 vols., 1884-1933; supplements), contains 500,000 words. It has been estimated, however, that the present English vocabulary consists of more than 1 million words, including slang and dialect expressions and scientific and technical terms, many of which only came into use after the middle of the 20th century. The English vocabulary is more extensive than that of any other language in the world, although some other languages—Chinese, for example—have a word-building capacity equal to that of English. It is, approximately half Germanic (Old English and Scandinavian) and half Italic or Romance (French and Latin) and extensive, constant borrowing from every major language, especially from Latin, Greek, French, and the Scandinavian languages, and from numerous minor languages, accounts for the great number of words in the English vocabulary. From Old English have come cardinal and ordinal numbers, personal pronouns, and numerous nouns and adjectives: from French have come intellectual and abstract terms, as well as terms of rank and status, such as duke, marquis, and baron. In addition, certain processes have led to the creation of many new words as well as to the establishment of patterns for further expansion. Among these processes are onomatopoeia, or the imitation of natural sounds, which has created such words as burp and
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