Ways of developing the vocabulary

Warm up activity questions

1. 
   What ways of developing of vocabulary in OE do you know?
   
2. 
   What features of Middle English do you know?
   
3. 
   What are the main events in Middle English?
   

Answes:

1. 
   Ways of developing the vocabulary. The OE vocabulary, like that of any other language, develops in two ways: (1) by forming new words from elements existing in the language, (2) by taking over words from other languages. In OE the first of these is by far more important.
   

Word- building. There are three main types of word- building in OE:
1. Morphological word- building, that is, creating new words by means of
morphological elements.

2. Syntactical word- building, that is building new words from syntactical

groups.

3. Semantic word- building, that is building new words by using existing

words in new meanings.

Morphological. Morphological word- building is subdivided into two
types: affixation and composition. The difference between the two types, as we shall see, is not an absolute one.