The vocabulary of the English language as a system
Etymologically the vocabulary of the English language is far from being
homogeneous. It consists of two layers - the native stock of words and the borrowed
stock of words. Numerically the borrowed stock of words is considerably larger than
the native stock of words. In fact native words comprise only 30 % of the total
number of words in the English vocabulary but the native words form the bulk of the
most frequent words actually used in speech and writing. Besides the native words
have a wider range of lexical and grammatical valency, they are highly polysemantic
and productive in forming word clusters and set expressions.
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