Test Questions

1. What is meant by the native element of the English vocabulary?

2. What are native words characterized by?

3. What languages did the English language borrow words from?

4. What are the characteristic features of Scandinavian borrowings?

5. What semantic groups are words of French origin divided into?

6. What are the characteristic features of the Renaissance borrowings?

7. Why are words borrowed?

8. What are the ways of borrowing?

9. What stages of assimilation do borrowings go through?

10. What levels of language system were influenced by borrowings?