Inglise leksikoloogia kordamisküsimuste vastused
English becomes a polycentric language; polyglot,
cosmopolitan language
4) Modern English – 500,000 words (OED)
At present at least 1 billion lexical units
2. Core and periphery
Core vocabulary – often short (monosyllabic) words of Germanic and Old Norse origin = ie core vocabulary of
most frequent words, and vague fuzzy peripherial words. Core meaning is the meaning which is at the centre of the
word.periphery – vague.
Formal usage (often polysyllabic words) from Norman French (rank, courtliness,refinement).
Learning, science, abstraction: Latin, and Greek.
The core vocabulary is predominantly Germanic (the, I, you, etc.) Only 4 of the topranked one hundred words in the
Brown
Corpus are of foreign origin. 93 of the first one hundred words in the Brown Corpus are monosyllabic, and the
remaining have two syllables (only, about, other, also, many even people)
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