the origin of english words
THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH
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... unseen.
Beowuef (printed in the modern alphabet)
The history of English begins a little after
A.D. 600. English is a Germanic Language
of the Indo –European Family
Indo –
European
English French Latin ... –gelid, there forge –steam
Under naessas genipap, neither gaited
Flod under foldan.
Modern English
Lonely and waste is the land they inhabit,
Wolf –cliffs wild and windy headlands,
Ledges of ...
Modern English
A Clerk that is an Oxford
scholar – who
Looked hollow to his bones,
and threadbare, too.
ã
Modern English (1500-now) :the change was
the elimination of a vowel sound and the...
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The future of English
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... the future
development of English in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of those
who speak it as a second language. English often plays a special
role in their lives and the fate of English in the ... domains of English
Will the growth of the
Internet help maintain
the global influence of
English?
p. 50
What effect will changing
patterns of trade have on
the use of English?
p. 33
English ... a professional interest in the
development of English worldwide.
The Future of English? takes stock of the
present, apparently unassailable, position of
English in the world and asks whether...
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The future of English 2
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05/11/2012, 16:27
... the future
development of English in the world is the ‘outer circle’ of those
who speak it as a second language. English often plays a special
role in their lives and the fate of English in the ... Although the
structural properties of English have not hindered the spread of
English, the spread of the language globally cannot be
attributed to intrinsic linguistic qualities.
2 The spread of English
There ... future for global
English.
One of the unanticipated achievements of the twenty first
century was the rapid diffusion of Basic English as the
lingua franca of the world and the even more rapid...
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The future of English - David Graddol
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... domains of English
Will the growth of the
Internet help maintain
the global influence of
English?
p. 50
What effect will changing
patterns of trade have on
the use of English?
p. 33
The global ... although the world
position of French has been in undoubted rapid decline
English in the 20th century
8 The Future of English?
The story of English in the 20th century has been closely linked to the ... future for global
English.
One of the unanticipated achievements of the twenty first
century was the rapid diffusion of Basic English as the
lingua franca of the world and the even more rapid...
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Information, Entropy, and the Origin of Life
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01/11/2013, 07:20
... in the physical sciences similar
to that of the theory of evolution in the life sciences. What is intriguing
is that the predictions of one seem to contradict the predictions of the
other. The ... and the Origin of Life
Walter L. Bradley
1.
introduction
Darwin’s theory of evolution and the development of the Second Law of
Thermodynamics by Clausius, Maxwell, Boltzmann, and Gibbs are two of
the ... understand
how living systems are able to sustain themselves against the downward pull
of the Second Law of Thermodynamics and how thermodynamics affects
the origin of information-rich, living systems. Finally,...
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The Practice of English Language Teaching
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06/11/2013, 11:15
... skills in their own languages. Then our task will be twofold: to give
them confidence in English and to equip them with hitherto unknown
skills in either their own mother tongue or English.
At ... than they were when the first edition of this book was
written.
Despite all these additions and changes, however, the structure of The
Practice of English Language Teaching remains essentially the ... subconscious knowledge of the rules allows
them to produce an infinite number of sentences. And of course they have
lexical knowledge too - they know words in the language and how they
operate and...
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A STUDY ON THE TRANSLATION OF ENGLISH COMPUTER TEXTS IN VIETNAMESE EQUIVALENTS
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... the object of the
verb in the active form in an active structure, becomes the subject of the verb in the
passive form; while the performer of an action (the agent) – the subject of the verb in ... knowledge of the field and professionals, stating that
the loan-word best conveys the meaning of the new concept and the use of loan words
sounds smarter and high-class.
Interestingly, in the translation ... ve huu – The General Retires” in The Other Side of Heaven”, 1995),
which reflects the use of TL adjective in place of SL verb.
The fourth type of transposition is the replacement of a virtual...
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AN ACTION RESEARCH ON THE APPLICATION OF COOPERATIVE LEARNING TO TEACHING SPEAKING TO THE SECOND YEAR SUDENTS AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, GIA LAI TEACHERS' TRAINING COLLEGE
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29/01/2014, 10:58
... foremost objective of the study is for the sake of the students. Besides, the study is expected
to serve as a source of reference for teachers of English on the teaching of speaking skills, ...
Part A is the introduction, which states the background to the study, the statement of the problem,
the scope, objectives and research questions as well as the methods and design of the study. ... assessments during the terms. The mark of the assessment will be taken as the
requirements for the final tests which account for 100% of the general semester score. The test
are often designed...
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Tài liệu The Handbook of English Linguistics ppt
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... is the DP which is the daughter
of IP and sister of I′ and the object is the sister of V. Given what we have said
about the free word order and the c-structure of Latin, on the other hand, the
mapping ... applications
of the theory. This also makes OT a meta-theory, rather than a theory, in that
the shape of gen and the formulation of the constraints depends on one’s
assumptions about syntactic theory. ... LFG. The S category in (5b) does not have a head in the way that the
TP in (3) had a T head or the IP in (4b) had an I head. Neither the NP nor the
VP daughter is of the same category as the mother....
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Báo cáo khoa học: "Improving the Use of Pseudo-Words for Evaluating Selectional Preferences" docx
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07/03/2014, 22:20
... is the concatenation of two
words (e.g. house/car). One word is the orig-
inal in a document, and the second is the con-
founder. Consider the following example of ap-
plying pseudo -words to the ... no-
table since the Google model only requires n-gram
counts to implement. The Backoff Erk model is
the best, using the Baseline for the majority of
decisions and backing off to the Erk smoothing
model ... which of two verbs
was the correct predicate for a given noun object.
One verb v was the original from the source doc-
ument, and the other v
was randomly generated.
This was the first use of such...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A Unified Statistical Model for the Identification of English BaseNP" pptx
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08/03/2014, 05:20
... number of N-best
In the experiments, the training and testing sets
are derived from the 25 sections of Wall Street
Journal distributed with the Penn Treebank II,
and the definition of baseNP is the ... all the baseNP
rules. “+1” and “+4” denote the number of beat
POS sequences retained in the first step. And
“UID+R” means the POS tagging result of the
given sentence is totally correct for the ... identification of
English baseNP. It uses two steps: the N-
best Part -Of- Speech (POS) tagging and
baseNP identification given the N-best
POS-sequences. Unlike the other
approaches where the two steps...
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Báo cáo khoa học: "A COMFUTATIONAL THEORY OF THE FUNCTION OF CLUE WORDS IN ARGUMENT UNDERSTANDING" potx
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08/03/2014, 18:20
... anaphors and clues in the next
section.
Even w!thin the classification of connectives,
there is a question of level of explicitness of the
clues. Consider the example:
EX7: 1 )The city is dangerous ... understanding. The
approach of studying goal-based dialogue and
structure reconstruction also allows us to comment
on the the function of clue words within analysis.
The theory of clue interpretation ... cleans the parks
3)So the parks are ugly I \
4)Then the roads are a mess 2 5
5)There's always garbage there
Here, 2 and 4 contain the clues; 3 and ~ are
brothers.
2)Inference: There...
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