An Introduction to Modern English Word Formation (English Language Series) Valerie Adams
Publisher: Longman

€The modern theologians in ceasing to be poets have also ceased to be philosophers. Whatever their origin, these Germanic dialects eventually coalesced to a degree (there remained geographical variation) and formed what is today called Old English. Words with Latinate roots tend to sound more formal and are often found in those fields of which Latin was once the principal language. Old English loosely Later, during the English Renaissance, many words were borrowed directly from Latin (giving rise to a number of doublets) and Greek, leaving a parallel vocabulary that persists into modern times. Culture, Dawson explained with deceptive simplicity in The Formation of Christendom, “is the human way of life communicated by language, so that the word of man is both the creator and the transmitter of culture” (67-68). This also means that all Yoruba learners of English will become bilingual, but we know that adults who succeed in achieving native speaker's competence in the second language should to an extent reactivate what Lennebery call “latent . Even today, the evidence of those old divisions remains apparent in Modern English. In the school of applied linguistics, however, this shift towards the innate human capacity to raise a growing interest in the learner's formation as he moves towards the bilingual competence sufficient for his communicative needs. By the An introduction to functional grammar, 2nd ed., London: Edward Arnold. As it turned out, the Christendom trilogy served as the last great work of English-Welsh historian and man of letters Christopher Dawson (1889-1970).