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BorrowedWordsSophomoreIntroductiontoLinguistics(B)CamilleChiang&SallyWu490200&490200505ProfessorAgnesYuanLinguisticsReport:BorrowedWordsMay13,2003Ι.Introduction:Borrowingisamethodforalanguagetoaddnewwordsfromotherlanguagesintoitssystem.Thatis,it“takesoverwordsfromotherlanguages.”(GeorgeYule,Thestudyoflanguage,page65)InEnglish,borrowingbelongstooneoftheprocessesofDerivationalMorphology.ThroughoutthehistoryofEnglish,Englishhasadoptedalotofborrowedwordsfrommanylanguages,includingFrance,German,DutchArabic,Italianandetc.Tostudyborrowedwordsfurther,wecandividethisterm“borrowing”intotwodifferenttypes:LoanTranslationandTransliteration.WecanalsocallLoanTranslation“calque”.Itmeans“thereisadirecttranslationoftheelementsofawordintotheborrowinglanguage.”Wecanseetheexampleoftheword“skyscraper”borrowedfromFrenchintoEnglishinYule(page65).TheothertermisTransliteration,whichwecandefineaswritingandtranslatingwordsorlettersusinglettersofadifferentalphabetorlanguage.Thatis,translatetheborrowedwordsfromotherlanguagesaccordingtothesoundswehearandthentranslatetheminourlanguagesystem.Inthispaper,ourgroupfocusesontheEnglishborrowedwordsthatwetakeintotheChineselanguagesystem.Wenotonlycollecttheborrowedwordsthroughobservationindailylifeandquestionnaire,butalsostudythemmorphologicallyandphonetically.Besidethetwotermsofborrowing,wefindthatsomeborrowedwordsarenotcompletelylabeledintothetwoterms.Then,welabeltheminotherpartofborrowedwordsandgivenewdefinition.Π.Design:Wecollectourdatamostlythroughthecconversationwehadwithotherpeoplewhowemetortalkedto,andsomeborrowedwordswererecordedthroughtheconversationweheardfromothers.Inadditiontothesetwomethodsofcollectingdata,wealsohadseveralbrainstormingtoseekforsomeborrowedwordswealreadyknew.Atlast,wehadasmallquestionnairesurveyasfollowsgiventoourclassmatessothatwecouldhavemoreideasaboutthistopic.親愛的同學您好,這是英文系語言學概論其中一組報告組所作的一份問券,針對您對中文裡出現的英文BorrowedWords(外來語)做個資料蒐集與了解。依據您在生活中對BorrowedWord的了解,請您列出至少五個從英文傳到中文裡的BorrowedW