THE MAIN CHARACTERISTIC OF ENGLISH WORD-STOCK ETYMOLOGICAL LAYERS OF ENGLISH VOCABULARY
Keywords:
word-stock, vocabulary, etymology, internal, external, borrowed words, native word, Anglo-NormanAbstract
The problems associated with the definition of the word have always been most complex and remain disputable. Determining the word involves considerable difficulties for the criteria employed in establishing it are of different character and each language presents a separate system with its own patterns of vocabulary items, its specific types of structural units and its own ways of distinguishing them. The matter is that the simplest word has many different aspects. It has a sound form because it is a certain arrangement of phonemes. It has its morphological structure, being a certain arrangement of morphemes.
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